* Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>:
> Since Cardoe was the last person from the council vote with a 
> distribution that's anywhere between "more positive than negative" and 
> "even", I suggest that we leave the remaining spot open rather than 
> filling it with someone who the majority of developers ranked in the 
> bottom half of candidates.

The "bottom half" depends somehow on the number of candidates.

This is the ranked list:
|  1  dberkholz
|  2  Halcy0n
|  3  Flameeyes
|  4  Betelgeuse
|  5  lu_zero
|  6  Jokey
|  7  dertobi123
|  8  cardoe
|  9  dev-zero
| 10  leio
| 11  welp
| 12  fmccor
| 13  ulm
| 14  jer
| 15  hkBst
| 16  astinus
| 17  ferdy peper
| 18  zlin

What is the bottom half?

By ranks:
1-9 is the first half, and 10-18 the second.

Or did you already remove rank 18?

| * Whenever a member of the Council loses their position (the reason is
|   irrelevant; they could be booted for slacking or they resign or ...), then
|   the next person in line from the previous Council election is offered the
|   position.  If they decline, it is offered to the next person in line, and so
|   forth.  If they accept and the current Council unanimously accepts the new
|   person, they get the position with a 'reduced' term such that the yearly
|   elections still elect a full group.  If the Council does not accept that
|   person, then a new election is held to choose a new member.
    <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20070208-summary.txt>

So your options are:
- Change the rules once again. Because you can.
- Follow the rules.