OT: quick and dirty interactive electoral vote calculator

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Sat Nov 1 20:14:13 UTC 2008


Matt Price wrote:
> hi folks,
>
> hope it's ok to ask a quick non-linux question.  I'm just making a quick
> US election spreadsheet, with rows for the various states.  I intended
> to have a radio button for each row, with the possible values "Obama",
> "McCain", amd "Undecided"; depending on the value, the electoral votes
> for that state would be added to the electoral college total for Obama,
> McCain, or neither.  As far as i can see there's no simple way to do
> this in Openoffice.  
>
> How would other people solve this problem, either in openoffice or using
> some other tool?  It seems like a very simple problem, but I don't want
> have to build a whole new interface from scratch just to make it work.
> And while there are lots of online calculators, i expect firefox to
> crash multiple times on election night and i don't want to keep losing
> my predictions.  Anyone have any suggestions?
>
>   

Can we vote for Tina Fey?  ;-)


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