Part VI. Politics
This section has three articles on how Perl can preserve democracy. The first two are about voting: Rob Lanphier’s article on the problems posed by our binary ballots (such as when U.S. citizens vote for president) in which voters are forced into an unnecessary dichotomy: either you vote for a candidate or against him. A better technique is to rank candidates in order of preference, as NCAA sports do. The second article, by Lincoln Stein, shows how Perl can be used to implement fair and secure Internet voting. The third and final article is about an error in a Perl program embedded in nuclear-tipped missiles, written by someone whose name is, not coincidentally, an anagram of “April Fool’s Day.”
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