I felt like rather than complaining, I should provide a fix. Turns out that I suck at Javascript though, so calling on my vast Twitter network (and mostly harassing Michael Richardson), we cooked up a script that should be able to be dropped into place with one modification:<div>
<br></div><div>Change:</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10px; "><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; "><h2>Candidates</h2>
<table class="grid election"></pre></span></div><div>to:</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10px; "><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; ">
<h2>Candidates</h2>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><form id="candidates-table"></span></pre><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap; "> <table class="grid election"></pre>
</span></div><div>See it in action: <a href="http://factorycity.net/demos/openid/checkboxes/">http://factorycity.net/demos/openid/checkboxes/</a></div><div><br></div><div>You can now pick up to SEVEN candidates, but no more.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Any chance we could get this deployed?</div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:10 PM, DeWitt Clinton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dewitt@google.com">dewitt@google.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">+1 to Chris' proposed language.<br><br>Also, js validation of the limit would indeed be fantastic.<br><br>-DeWitt<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Chris Messina <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris.messina@gmail.com" target="_blank">chris.messina@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex"><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">The current language on the voting page is somewhat confusing:<div>
<br></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex">
<span style="font-family:Times;font-size:16px"><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 style="font-family:arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"> </span></span></span></blockquote>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex">
<span style="font-family:Times;font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:12px;line-height:18px"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:13px;line-height:normal"><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="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex">
Voting is now open until December 24, 2008. <br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex">
<br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex">
There are a total of 17 candidates vying to fill seven board seats. <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>
</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex">
<br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex">
<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="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex">
<br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex">
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>
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