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Roy A. Minet

<br>Although Roy Minet’s major in college was physics, he accepted a particularly interesting job offer in engineering with a large multi-national corporation as his first employment. That led to positions in sales, marketing, then marketing management, and finally management of a strategic business planning department, all for the same corporation.<br><br>Moving into small business, he bought and operated a master beer distributorship for 12 years before selling it.&nbsp; While distributing (and perhaps drinking) beer, he founded Intelligent Computer Systems, Inc., which pioneered comprehensive, integrated, real-time business software and installed turnkey computer systems for distribution businesses nationwide.&nbsp; After 22 years, ICS was sold to the 3M Corporation.<br><br>Mr. Minet is now retired and pursuing a backlog of personal projects—most notably, improving all aspects of elections. Work done in 2009 produced the Precinct-Preserving Splitline (PPS) geometric procedure—an elegant cure for gerrymandering. In 2020, he proposed the Approve/Approve/Disapprove Voting (AADV) method as the best replacement for the plurality method—finally resolving the 240-year-long voting methods debate. The Election Manager software was developed in 2011, then revised in 2021 to include the AADV method.<br><br>Mr. Minet also has taught economics in 11th and 12th grades with the Junior Achievement program. Approximately 40 of his op-ed columns have been published. He was the Libertarian Party’s candidate for Pennsylvania Auditor General in 2016.<br><br>Website: https:&nbsp; //royminet.org/ <br> <br>