Steven Feurstein works for TOAD (Quest software) and is one of the smartest dudes I have ever seen talk. Plus, he turns out to be super down-to-earth with a good sense of humor and comes across as generally good people all around. I saw him present on Testing Best Practices at Oracle OpenWorld and have been following his TOAD blog and his personal blog ever since.
Since I finished my primary ballot last night and voted Obama like I'm supposed to, but did think about writing in "Boneless Buffalo Chicken Wings" or "Ralph Wiggum," I've been thinking about how fucked up our voting process is. We can do an American Idol vote in 24 hours time, but we can't do a government election with a straight majority in one of the most technologically advanced and richest (the top 20% anyway) countries in the world. I can't even step out and blame our looking to an invisible man in the sky as the stumbling block on this one. It comes down to fear of truth. Without the ability to fuck with elections, power is taken away from the politicians and actually given back to the people (the majority). When the people actually start making decisions (yes, even the Midwest), the government as we know it will cease to exist. This means pharmaceuticals, big auto, MNCs, etc. will be unable to make policy changes the way they do now.
Scary, isn't it? Dystopian books and movies are starting to read and watch like memoirs.
Steven's FeurThoughts on voting is required reading. Coming from a tech guy it means a lot more than coming from Katie Couric reading off a cut and pasted press release.
Electronic Voting System DOs and DONTs.
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