Tomas J. McIntee
“An analytically incisive account of the Electoral College’s foibles.”
“To say that Graduating from the Electoral College is key to understanding the American democratic process is an understatement.”
Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Reviews
“In addition to taking readers on a journey of the Electoral College's role in every election through 2020, McIntee's classification of pivotal, critical, and crucial states will be quite useful to scholars, pundits, and even casual observers of the Electoral College. This is an accessible book that will be especially attractive to critics of the Electoral College.”
- Robert Alexander
Representation and the Electoral College
“Once their utility passed, three-corner hats, outdoor privies, and horse-drawn carriages were dismissed. It is long past time to drop another eighteenth century relic; one that threatens our democracy: the US Electoral College ... An excellent place to learn about its history and dangers is this book by McIntee.”
-Donald G. Saari
Chaotic Elections! A Mathematician Looks at Voting
Distinguished Research Professor, UC-Irvine
“This book is a masterpiece, a real page-turner for anyone with an interest, either professional or recreational, in the bizarre system the most powerful country in the world uses to elect the most powerful person in the world.”
-Rick Klima
Summary
Tomas J. McIntee is a mathematician and social scientist with stray degrees in physics and philosophy. He has worked in data science, software development, machine learning, and computer vision, and recently published a book on the Electoral College. He owns a cute dog named Olive.
Background
He spent seven years as a student at Appalachian State University, exiting with one master’s degree, two bachelor’s degrees, and three completed major fields of study - mathematics, physics, and philosophy. He earned departmental honors for his thesis, The Limits of Mice and Men: An Introductory Approach to Sen's Impossibility Theorem for Voting Systems, and then learned that very long titles went out of fashion some time in the 1800s.
In the copious spare time afforded to him as a triple major and later master’s student, he was active in the math club, fencing club, and an all-male a capella group while developing interests in swing dancing, contra dancing, and modern dance.
Eventually, he left for UC-Irvine, where he took up salsa dancing, joined the RPG club, quit fencing, broke his hand, got back into tae kwon do, and wrote Geometric Ways of Understanding Voting Problems, which won the 2015 Jean-Claude Falmagne Award for best doctoral thesis using mathematics and mathematical reasoning to advance understanding of critical issues from the social and behavioral sciences.
After finishing his doctorate, he taught for several years in Virginia and Ohio before joining Ion Innovations, a small scientific consulting outfit specializing in microscopy that needed a mathematical heavy hitter for a tricky bit of work on simplifying a multi-dimensional problem. Several years later, he now has experience in software development and data science, and his name is on two pending patents related to his work with Ion Innovations. He has since transitioned to working for the NC TraCS Institute as a research data scientist, adding medical research to his diverse intellectual portfolio.
Read online
Tomas J. McIntee writes on a variety of subjects online, usually several times a month. You can subscribe to his articles on Substack or Medium. Currently, articles generally appear on Substack first and Medium later.
Profiles
Tomas has numerous online public profiles on social media websites and listing services, linked to below. His dog Olive has an Instagram account.
