response 216 of 225:

Dec 19 13:34 UTC 2003

Well, there you go - I'd forgotten that.  Thanks Jamie.

response 218 of 225:

Dec 19 17:17 UTC 2003

Thanks to davel for reporting the number of folks who voted.  We did
have a higher turnout this year, for whatever reason.

A few years ago I put code in the vote program to log the date and
time whenever someone casts a ballot.  It also distinguishes between
whether the vote was by the tty interface or the web.  I then proceeded
to forget that I had done this.  A question by Joe Gelinas about the
availability of statistics on voting patterns jogged my memory.  So
here are some results:

        tty interface:  88 ballots cast
        web interface:  30 ballots cast

        Day-by-day activity:

        ballots date
       ------------------------------
        20      Mon Dec 1
        12      Tue Dec 2
        5       Wed Dec 3
        5       Thu Dec 4
        8       Fri Dec 5
        3       Sat Dec 6
        3       Sun Dec 7
        12      Mon Dec 8
        8       Tue Dec 9
        5       Wed Dec 10
        10      Thu Dec 11
        5       Fri Dec 12
        2       Sat Dec 13
        6       Sun Dec 14
        14      Mon Dec 15

Since people can vote multiple times, there's no particular correlation
between these numbers and candidate totals.  We can see a bunch of voting
activity at the beginning of the voting period and another flurry at the
end (not surprising), plus a couple of bulges in the middle with less
obvious explanations.

response 220 of 225:

Dec 19 18:37 UTC 2003

How many new members did we get around the voting period, who then 
proceeded to vote?

response 222 of 225:

Dec 19 20:37 UTC 2003

Thanks Mark.

response 224 of 225:

Dec 20 16:22 UTC 2003

Danke, Mark!