The current language on the voting page is somewhat confusing:<div><br></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; ">This election is running and votes can be cast one vote per candidate up to the total number of seats available; for this election, that means you get 7 votes. Make sure you vote by December 24, 2008.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; "> </span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Please note that you can only cast votes once (unlike seconding nominees). After you submit your votes, you cannot change your votes or cast additional votes. </span></span></span></span></blockquote>
<div> </div><div><br></div><div>Seems like this would be more clear:</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
Voting is now open until December 24, 2008. <br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
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There are a total of 17 candidates vying to fill seven board seats. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">You may cast up to, but no more than, seven votes, and you only vote for each candidate once.</span><br>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">You will only be able to submit your votes once, and cannot make changes or add additional votes once you have submitted them.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
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Results will be announced by Dec 31, and the new board will be installed on Jan 1, 2009.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I also attempted to vote for 10 candidates to see if I'd be given an error, and I was not. I suggest either returning an in-page error or doing a Javascript detection that only allows you to select up to seven candidates and then disables the rest of the checkboxes.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Chris</div><br>-- <br>Chris Messina<br>Citizen-Participant &<br> Open Technology Advocate-at-Large<br><a href="http://factoryjoe.com">factoryjoe.com</a> # <a href="http://diso-project.org">diso-project.org</a><br>
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