On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 10:21 PM Rick Moen <r...@linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> FWIW, Ms. Ehmke's blog post states that she and Tobie Langel 'did
> collectively
> secure 35% of the votes from the membership', but quick calculation[1]
> using the numbers at https://opensource.org/node/1049 suggests this
> statistic is 11%.  (Perhaps Ms. Ehmke was relying on preliminary vote
> counts from elsewhere.  I wouldn't know, and just note the datum.)
>
>
> [1] Liten-Datamaskin:~ rick$ bc
> bc 1.06
> Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> For details type `warranty'.
> scale = 2
> (36 + 82) / (224 + 198 + 137 + 92 + 82 + 67 + 60 + 56 + 39 + 36 + 36 + 13
> + 7 + 7 + 7)
> .11
>

The math here assumes voters only cast a single vote, which isn't how this
election works.

Afaik the 35% number Coraline shared was based on data provided by Josh.

--tobie
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