22 Dec 2016: UK Usenet Committee Election 2016
From: Barry Salter <bsalter@ukvoting.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2016 21:59:14 +0000
Subject: RESULT - UK Usenet Committee Election 2016
Newsgroups: uk.net.news.announce,uk.net.news.config,uk.net.news.management
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Result of Call for Votes
UK Usenet Committee Election 2016
Due to the continued prevalence of viruses and worms the harvest Usenet
posts for e-mail addresses, all e-mail addresses in these results are
modified to prevent this.
Summary:
The following people are elected to serve as Open Members of the UK
Usenet Committee until December 2019:
Molly Mockford
Owen Dunn
Charles Lindsey
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Voting closed at 23:59:59 GMT, 17th December 2016.
Votetakers for the 2016 UK Usenet Committee Election:
Primary: Barry Salter <bsalter (at) ukvoting (dot) org (dot) uk>
Secondary: Jon Ribbens <jribbens (at) ukvoting (dot) org (dot) uk>
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Distribution:
These results have been posted to the following newsgroups:
uk.net.news.announce
uk.net.news.config
uk.net.news.management
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The full results follow below in the following order:
1) Information on the Ballot
2) Summary of Mail Received During the Voting Period
3) Results in Detail
4) Voter List
5) Counted Vote List
6) Votetaker's Comments
7) Voting and Appeal Information
8) Copy of Statements from the CFV
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Information on the Ballot
Voters were asked to rank the following candidates in order of
preference:
Molly Mockford Candidate A
Paul Cummins Candidate B
Owen Dunn Candidate C
Charles Lindsey Candidate D
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Summary of Mail Received During the Voting Period
57 unique e-mail addresses requested ballot papers, of which:
52 were valid Ballot Requests
5 were used for test messages by the primary votetaker
52 messages were received to the Voting Address, of which:
46 were valid and counted votes
1 was rejected due to invalid voting preferences being specified
1 was a valid vote subsequently superseded by the voter
4 were test messages by the primary votetaker
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Results in Detail
The election was conducted using the Single Transferable Vote method of
voting, with the count carried out under the Electoral Reform Society's
1997 (3rd Edition) rules.
The STV analysis is as follows:
UK Usenet Committee Election 2016
Stage 1
Total Valid Vote: 46
Places to be filled +1: 4
So Quota = 46/4
Quota = 11.50
First Preferences
Molly Mockford 16.00
Paul Cummins 6.00
Owen Dunn 11.00
Charles Lindsey 13.00
Molly Mockford ELECTED
with 16.00
over quota 11.50
Charles Lindsey ELECTED
with 13.00
over quota 11.50
Active Vote: 23.00
Places left+1: 2
Vote required for election now: 11.50
Stage 2
No candidates can be excluded, so we transfer the largest surplus
Surplus of Molly Mockford
Owen Dunn gets 16 papers.
16 papers transferred.
Total Present Value: 16.00
0 papers non-transferable.
Calculating transfer value: 4.50/16
Papers transferred at 0.28
Owen Dunn now has 15.48 votes.
0.02 votes non-transferable.
Owen Dunn ELECTED
with 15.48
over quota 11.50
***Finished***
In grid format, this is expressed as follows:
UK Usenet Committee Election 2016
Number to be elected: 3 (from 4)
Counted votes: 46
Quota for election on first round: 11.50
1st Stage 2
Pref T A
16 -4.50 11.50 Elect Molly Mockford
6 0.00 6.00 Paul Cummins
11 4.48 15.48 Elect Owen Dunn
13 13.00 Elect Charles Lindsey
0.02 0.02 Non-transferable
46 46.00 Totals
Key to grid:
Stage 2 - Surplus of Molly Mockford
T = number of votes transferred at this stage
A = votes for candidate after transfer
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Voter List
The following individuals supplied valid votes:
Name E-Mail
A. non Eyemouse anoneyemouse -at- eml#cc
Adam Funk a24061a -at- ducksburg#com
Adrian voting16 -at- ffoil#org#uk
Alan Braggins armb -at- chiark#greenend#org#uk
Ali ali#on_usenet -at- ntlworld#com
Anthony R. Gold not-for-mail -at- ahjg#co#uk
Brian Brian -at- bjforster#force9#co#uk
Brian Howie brian -at- b-howie#demon#co#uk
Charles Lindsey chl -at- clerew#man#ac#uk
Chronos matt -at- chronos#org#uk
Clive George clive -at- evil-c#co#uk
Colin Rosenstiel rosenstiel -at- cix#co#uk
crn crn -at- netunix#com
David Damerell damerell -at- chiark#greenend#org#uk
Graham Nye news -at- thenyes#org#uk
Herbie herbietheone -at- gmx#co#uk
I J Clifton ian#clifton -at- chem#ox#ac#uk
Ian Jackson ijackson -at- chiark#greenend#org#uk
Jerry Stuckle jstuckle -at- attglobal#net
John Hall john -at- jhall#co#uk
John the R-T usenetvote -at- the-r-t#freeserve#co#uk
Judith Smith judithmsmith2016 -at- yahoo#com
kat katstuff -at- the-kat#org
Llymru llymru -at- gmail#com
Mark Goodge mark -at- good-stuff#co#uk
Matthew Vernon matthew -at- debian#org
Michael Parry mjp -at- crowsnest#co#uk
Mike Fleming mike -at- tauzero#co#uk
Mike Tomlinson mike -at- jasper#org#uk
Molly Mockford com2016 -at- mollymockford#me#uk
Nick nick#spam -at- yahoo#co#uk
Nick Leverton nick -at- leverton#org
Owen Dunn owend -at- chiark#greenend#org#uk
Owen Rees owenrees -at- fastmail#fm
paul {paul} -at- watman#clara#co#uk
Paul Cummins paulcummins -at- tiscali#co#uk
Pedt laughs -at- manygiggl#es
Peter Parry peter -at- wpp#ltd#uk
Richard Kettlewell rjk -at- greenend#org#uk
Roger Hayter roger -at- hayter#org
Sara Merriman saramerriman -at- blueyonder#co#uk
Sn!pe snipeco#1 -at- gmail#com
Stephen Thomas Cole steve#t#cole -at- gmail#com
Steve Eldridge g8izy -at- blueyonder#co#uk
Tony tony -at- darkstorm#co#uk
Wm wm_o_o_o -at- yahoo#co#uk
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Counted Vote List
The guidelines for the UK Usenet Committee Elections stipulate
that the votes of all voters shall be published in such a way that
only the voter can recognise his/her own vote.
The following votes were counted, listed in alphanumeric order of
the Voter ID:
Ranking
Ballot Key A B C D
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01f8a5a6-0c16-40cb-901f-e2a2ec9948c5 1 - 2 3
02ebbcf3-b24a-4717-85e7-94dc2e2f2da6 2 3 - 1
1192a1cd-1a3f-47cc-b7f5-db6d77a0f4c7 2 4 3 1
131b8ade-000d-483e-9a8d-e107bd30e386 1 4 3 2
17854f8d-da59-4984-93d5-38730dbf25a3 1 4 3 2
23977ac9-7dd1-4088-ab08-dd4304713869 3 - 1 2
24b64e7b-0c48-4c01-96c4-e62835dec984 2 - 1 3
2506346f-0f49-4d4b-85e3-6718c2ac46da 1 4 2 3
2fb3aa01-0341-45e1-a08b-8d2fb1029349 3 - 1 2
3474903d-e6eb-43b7-a8e2-abfee81f882d 1 4 3 2
3b4a923e-0f6e-40e1-afe3-6efaa59d369c 2 4 1 3
3ccb16a6-bbcd-4d87-a9f1-a2b9e5ed4ebe 2 1 - 3
45c059b1-262f-40c1-9760-862826a52988 3 - 1 2
47793497-f9cd-4b1f-add0-81df337e71ae 3 - 2 1
48cb5143-9362-43bc-b561-1616f03665c7 1 - 3 2
49141184-9822-482b-9b63-93f3e08e6a4f 1 - 3 2
4f1a9807-4519-4f8b-8e00-76b5c4b6523c 1 4 3 2
52d1a600-0845-4039-9662-8a51c731a205 2 1 4 3
568f5f79-498a-4d4c-abff-2dc019ef2c37 1 4 2 3
5c483ed7-3dcd-4e68-a3eb-29d62dd341f6 1 4 3 2
5e52db72-fb9d-4c4b-8803-a62f7a8777af 2 4 3 1
68bc8dba-d1dd-4a0e-95c5-03ebd323819d - 1 - 2
795c0fe9-76cf-4f32-95f5-498f7b57ce0f 2 - 1 3
81a709b4-4b2d-44de-b4ec-84c544551b65 1 4 2 3
84942afd-d063-4045-8777-96fbd1fd06db 2 4 3 1
938850a9-30a0-4d63-bc64-fbb244dd0ac4 1 - 3 2
972384c7-2743-455f-945a-739a931c6266 1 4 3 2
97809658-16b5-4c92-a764-c0d953acaded 2 - 3 1
9813d602-0829-4daa-a182-c25aaa8a8b9d 2 4 3 1
9a4d72a7-631f-4637-8b00-ad7f1e8c502c - 1 - -
9bf0b4de-c7d9-450b-b35f-13e230f2c084 2 - 1 3
9e3b55c0-0144-4451-aea2-f33ed09cdae0 3 4 2 1
a7797b68-2745-4046-ae77-520aecae893d 2 3 4 1
a7908c42-60e7-473e-aa74-e43cfa10563f 3 - 2 1
b016c32e-a490-45ab-8c23-72fc2cb3736a - 1 - -
b5d3efe6-7276-4c98-a4e2-c49cde8a131f 3 4 2 1
b83d9fec-6c06-4f18-8803-7310d4bd55fe 2 3 4 1
c5852c20-f17b-4dc6-8ec4-e263575f0bf0 2 1 - 3
c67748de-ab4e-49a5-b1ef-1f45165c2a00 3 - 1 2
d33552d6-941a-425f-8403-1ef9b070a1e4 3 2 4 1
d63b6742-756a-4588-a8b7-d1f962ca9233 2 4 1 3
dae496f8-aa04-4aff-a11a-e0daf7cef405 2 4 1 3
ddd44778-6f9f-4230-913e-a5711bd0ef59 1 - 2 3
e60790ff-d004-4574-aec6-b606760d1c31 3 4 1 2
e9c9d498-dab4-4742-8757-d3b0b00c1e79 1 4 3 2
f8bd89da-a1f1-4b90-a515-1b919a0df0c2 1 A 2 3
Key: - = No preference expressed for that candidate
A = Explicit abstention expressed for that candidate
If you wish to check that your vote has been correctly recorded, your
Ballot ID can be found on your ballot paper and your acknowledgement.
It should be noted that the Ballot IDs were issued randomly, and the
sequence here does not match either the order in which ballot papers
were requested or the alphabetical sequence of voter names or email
addresses.
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Votetaker's Comments
Barry:-
First of all I'd like to apologise to the community for the delay to the
Election this year. We dropped the ball on this one, with a combination
of a late request to the Committee to resolve the tie to create the
third vacancy and problems with my mail setup combining to cause the
Call for Applications not to go out until late October, with the CFV
delayed as a result.
As can be seen from the summary of mail received during the voting
period, there were more test messages than usual. This mostly stems from
a desire to check the functionality of the updated ballot handling
system compared to the previous version.
As usual, voter validation proved relatively straightforward for the
most part, with the vast majority being regulars. Having said that, one
would be voter submitted a ballot with a voting preference that could
generously be described as "ambiguous", but they corrected this upon
receipt of the rejection message.
Anyway, that's enough waffle from me. Let me end by congratulating Owen,
Molly and Charles on their re-election, and offering comiserations to
Paul.
Jon:-
All credit for this vote goes to Barry for arranging it smoothly and
efficiently, and congratulations to the elected committee members.
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Voting and Appeal Information
This vote was conducted by neutral third party members of UKVoting.
UKVoting is a group of independent votetakers who count votes on
behalf of the uk.* hierarchy and other 3rd parties.
The rules under which votes for the uk.* hierarchy are taken are posted
regularly to uk.net.news.announce or can be found at the following URL:
<http://www.usenet.org.uk/voting.html>
The UKVoting web pages can be found at <http://www.ukvoting.org.uk/>
There is a five day discussion period after these results are posted to
uk.net.news.announce.
Allegations of irregularity should be sent to the committee via email
to: control (at) usenet (dot) org (dot) uk.
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(The information in this and the following section is a copy of that
provided in the CFV)
Definition of Open Class of Membership
Any participant in the uk.* hierarchy qualifies as a candidate in the
Open class.
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Application Requirements
Any participant in the uk.* hierarchy qualifies as a nominator for the
Open class.
Any individual may nominate a maximum of three candidates.
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Persons retiring from the Committee
In accordance with the Committee Document, the following Open Class
Members have served a full three year term and are deemed to be retiring
from the Committee. They are eligible for re-election.
Molly Mockford
Charles Lindsey
As this results in fewer than three vacant seats, the next longest
serving member (counted from the most recent date they were elected or
co-opted to the Committee) retires to create the third vacancy. This
gives a four way tie between the following Open Class Members:
Geoff Berrow
Mark Goodge
Fiona Gostling (aka 'Kat')
Clive George
In accordance with established procedures, UKVoting requested that the
Committee resolve the tie. Accordingly, the following Open Class Member
has retired early to create the third vacant seat. He is eligible for
re-election.
Geoff Berrow
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Candidates
Four applications were received. The Committee had three vacancies
and therefore an Election was held to fill the three vacancies.
A list of the candidates is below:
Molly Mockford Candidate A
Paul Cummins Candidate B
Owen Dunn Candidate C
Charles Lindsey Candidate D
Please find below details of the people who nominated each candidate
(Name & Email Address) and a short statement from each candidate.
Note: In each case, only the names of the first four nominators to
confirm their nomination are listed.
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Candidate A
Name: Molly Mockford
E-Mail: com2016 (at) mollymockford (dot) me (dot) uk
Nominators:
Name: Brian J Forster
E-Mail: Brian (at) bjforster (dot) force9 (dot) co (dot) uk
Name: Tony Evans
E-Mail: tony (at) darkstorm (dot) co (dot) uk
Name: Matt Dawson
E-Mail: matt (at) chronos (dot) org (dot) uk
Name: paul
E-Mail: usenet (at) watman (dot) clara (dot) co (dot) uk
Personal Statement:
In the words of a 19th century medical ethicist, "Primo non nocere" -
"First, do no harm". I feel this is a very useful maxim for the
Committee. Most of the time we have very little to do, and this is
because things are proceeding smoothly and quietly. Now and then there
is a flurry of activity, and we are called upon to make decisions,
which we do to the best of our ability. It is not for Committee
pro-actively to steer uk.* Usenet except in the most urgent of
emergencies, but simply to respond coolly and sensibly to queries and
other contacts from the uk.* community; and it is my firm belief that
this is how we should continue in the future. If nothing needs to be
done, nothing should be done simply for the sake of being seen to do
something.
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Candidate B
Name: Paul Cummins
E-Mail: paulcummins (at) tiscali (dot) co (dot) uk
Nominators:
Name: Steve G8IZY
E-Mail: G8IZY (at) blueyonder (dot) co (dot) uk
Name: Pedt
E-Mail: laughs (at) manygiggl (dot) es
Name: Mike Fleming
E-Mail: mike (at) tauzero (dot) co (dot) uk
Name: Stephen Thomas Cole
E-Mail: usenet (at) stephenthomascole (dot) com
Personal Statement:
I really don't need to say much about myself. For all my fuckwittery, I
have been a stalwart of UK Usenet for close to two decades.
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Candidate C
Name: Owen Dunn
E-Mail: owend (at) chiark (dot) greenend (dot) org (dot) uk
Nominators:
Name: Mark Goodge
E-Mail: mark (at) good-stuff (dot) co (dot) uk
Name: Sara Merriman
E-Mail: saramerriman (at) blueyonder (dot) co (dot) uk
Name: Matthew Vernon
E-Mail: matthew (at) debian (dot) org
Name: Ian Jackson
E-Mail: ijackson (at) chiark (dot) greenend (dot) org (dot) uk
Personal Statement:
I've been reading and posting to Usenet and uk.* for a little over
twenty years. Standing for the Committee is a way of giving a little
back. I don't see myself or the Committee as having a particularly
activist role; it's largely a matter of keeping custody of the
Guidelines and ensuring that things keep ticking over.
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Candidate D
Name: Charles Lindsey
E-Mail: chl (at) clerew (dot) man (dot) ac (dot) uk
Nominators:
Name: Brian J Forster
E-Mail: Brian (at) bjforster (dot) force9 (dot) co (dot) uk
Name: Sara Merriman
E-Mail: saramerriman (at) blueyonder (dot) co (dot) uk
Name: Paul Cummins
E-Mail: paulcummins (at) tiscali (dot) co (dot) uk
Name: Peter Parry
E-Mail: peter (at) wpp (dot) ltd (dot) uk
Personal Statement:
I have been on the Committee since it was set up, and have been Deputy
Control throughout that time. I look after the UsenetUK website (and
thanks to those who point out occasional omissions) and oversee the
regular postings to UNNA.
I also manage our mailing lists and forwarding to moderators held on
Gradwell.com (who provide these facilites for free). As other Gradwell
customers will know, this is a somewhat hairy experience at the present
time.
And I am willing to carry on these serveices so long as people want me
to. Apart from that, I tend to keep my mouth shut.
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