I was in the voting booth today and I noticed that the percentages for the 90 votes only added up to 96%. If we have a voting booth, shouldn't the %'s = 100? I took this as a challenge to write a better voting booth rounder.
--eric 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

my %votes = (
    plane => 5,
    cbn   => 10,
    wall  => 2,
    pass  => 11,
    shirt => 5,
    vison => 7,
    mind  => 26,
    name  => 10,
    tooth => 14,
);
my $total;
for (values %votes){
  $total += $_;
}
my %pcts;
my $diff = 100;
 
foreach my $vote (keys %votes){
  my $pct = $votes{$vote}/$total * 100;
  $diff -= int($pct);
  $pcts{$vote} = $pct;
}
 
my $format = "%-12s" x 3;
my @titles = qw(ANSWER VOTES/PCT RAW-PCT);
printf("$format\n", @titles);
 
my $new_total = 0;
foreach my $answ (sort { ($pcts{$b} - int($pcts{$b}))
                                   <=>
                         ($pcts{$a} - int($pcts{$a}))
                  } keys %pcts ){
 
  my $round = int($pcts{$answ});
  $round += 1 if $diff-- > 0;
  printf("$format\n",$answ,"$votes{$answ}/$round%",
                               $pcts{$answ});
  $new_total += $round;
}
 
print "\n\tNew % Total: $new_total%\n";

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