If it wasn’t only Washingtonians who are to participate, then the number of recruits being two OOMs less than the 100K which the MIRI team demanded is less an evidence of the team’s incompetence (edit: or of political considerations that require the protest to be arranged in Washigton) and more of the position’s weakness. While the density of those who signed the pledge wasn’t disclosed, I suspect that the protesters would have to live close to the protest’s place. For example, I find it highly unlikely that, say, an army of people from states less eastern than Texas comes into Washington to protest and goes away after the protest is over.
If it wasn’t only Washingtonians who are to participate, then the number of recruits being two OOMs less than the 100K which the MIRI team demanded is less an evidence of the team’s incompetence (edit: or of political considerations that require the protest to be arranged in Washigton) and more of the position’s weakness. While the density of those who signed the pledge wasn’t disclosed, I suspect that the protesters would have to live close to the protest’s place. For example, I find it highly unlikely that, say, an army of people from states less eastern than Texas comes into Washington to protest and goes away after the protest is over.