Daniel Walters

Feb 17, 2025 | thereflector.com | Daniel Walters

Brian Kernagis, a Vancouver-area marketing manager, voted early. Around 5 or 6 p.m. on Oct. 27, a week before the general election last year, he put his and his girlfriend’s ballots directly in the ballot box drop box at the Fisher’s Landing Transit Center in Vancouver. Their ballots laid there for hours, nestled among hundreds of other ballots in the drop box — ballots filled out by recent high school graduates and an 80-year-old married couple. Ballots from a speech pathologist. A wine consultant.

Feb 7, 2025 | chronline.com | Daniel Walters

Brian Kernagis, a Vancouver-area marketing manager, voted early. Around 5 or 6 p.m. on Oct. 27, a week before the general election last year, he put his and his girlfriend’s ballots directly in the ballot box drop box at the Fisher’s Landing Transit Center in Vancouver, Washington.  Their ballots laid there for hours, nestled among hundreds of other ballots in the drop box — ballots filled out by recent high school graduates and an 80-year-old married couple. Ballots from a speech pathologist.

Nov 2, 2024 | ourcommunitynow.com | Daniel Walters

Political pressure, loss of access to data from social media sites have made it harder to study how falsehoods spread It’s election season, and as falsehoods rain down like a monsoon, the “rapid research” team of academics at the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public has been scrambling to analyze it all. They’ve tracked the claim that hundreds of illegal voters in Washington state were registered at a single address.

Nov 2, 2024 | columbian.com | Daniel Walters

Address questionsThe claim: A thread in April on X flagging suspicious entries from the Washington Voter Registration Database claimed more than 200 voters were supposedly registered at a single house in Seattle. The truth: The database had a typo. The intended address was the site for Seattle’s Compass Housing Alliance, which provides a fixed address for homeless people. The spread: By the following day, the tweet had been shared more than 2,000 times on X.

Oct 3, 2024 | medium.com | Daniel Walters

Daniel Walters·FollowPublished inFocus on outcomes·3 min read·--Estimation in software development is mainly wasted effort and should not be part of the routine development process. We know estimation is a wasted effort because, in most cases:Estimation will not add value to achieving your goal. A value-first approach changes how we think about the cost of our effort. Estimation exists mostly to serve the activity-first approach to work and as a crude attempt to prioritise based on cost.