From d065c9656eb1fc0795a4328365e0695a7018f709 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christoph Blecker <admin@toph.ca>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2025 13:24:19 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fix bash-based word count validation for steering elections

---
 hack/verify-steering-election.sh | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hack/verify-steering-election.sh b/hack/verify-steering-election.sh
index 1a6b158adc9..6034b8d595f 100755
--- a/hack/verify-steering-election.sh
+++ b/hack/verify-steering-election.sh
@@ -17,11 +17,12 @@
 set -o errexit
 set -o nounset
 set -o pipefail
-
 shopt -s extglob
 
-# exclude bios before 2021 since some of them have more than 300 words
-STEERING_ELECTION_BIOS="$(pwd)/events/elections/!(2017|2018|2019|2020)/candidate-*.md"
+export KUBE_ROOT=$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE}")/..
+
+# exclude bios before 2025 since some of them have more than 300 words
+STEERING_ELECTION_BIOS="${KUBE_ROOT}/elections/steering/!(2017|2018|2019|2020|2021|2022|2023|2024)/candidate-*.md"
 
 invalid_bios=0
 break=$(printf "=%.0s" $(seq 1 68))