Understanding the Fundamentals of the U.S. Presidential Election System (PDF)

Alexander S. Belenky is the author of books and scientific articles in the fields of optimization and game theory and their applications in transportation, industry, agriculture, environmental protection, advertising, brokerage, auctioning, and U.S. presidential elections. He is the author of Operations Research in Transportation Systems: Ideas and Schemes of Optimization Methods for Strategic Planning and Operations Management-published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 1998 and republished by Springer in 2010-which has been adopted by many leading American Universities. Also, he is the author of the books Extreme Outcomes of US Presidential Elections (2003), Winning the US Presidency: Rules of the Game and Playing by the Rules (2004), and How America Chooses Its Presidents (2007, 2009). He was an invited guest on radio and TV talk shows throughout the country in the course of the 2004 election campaign, and he was the invited Guest Editor of Mathematical Modeling of Voting Systems and Elections: Theory and Applications, a special edition of Mathematical and Computer Modelling (2008),

Currently, Alexander S. Belenky is a tenured professor at the Department of Mathematics for Economics and a leading scientist at the Decision Choice and Analysis Laboratory at the National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia, and a visiting scholar at the MIT Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals. He holds a Ph.D. degree in systems analysis and mathematics and a D.Sc. degree in applications of mathematical methods. His opinion pieces about voting systems have appeared in The Baltimore Sun, The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times, The Plain Dealer, Providence Journal and in other newspapers.

From the reviews:“This unique book combines thorough analyses of the constitutional, legal, and mathematical factors surrounding the election of a U.S. president. … the book offers an interesting combination of subjects and modeling techniques. … Belenky outlines several mathematical problems or research agendas that would improve the distribution of voting machines and ensure no voter waits longer than a specified maximum. … it is an invaluable reference to anyone interested in the intersection of mathematics and election systems.” (Jennifer M. Wilson, Mathematical Reviews, March, 2014)