23 Dec 2006: UK Usenet Hierarchy - Committee Election 2006
From: "Richard Ashton" <r.ashton@ukvoting.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:23:12 +0000
Subject: RESULT - UK Usenet Committee Elections 2006
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 Elections 2006
Due to the continued prevalence of viruses and worms that 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 2009:
Chris Croughton
Kat aka Fiona Gostling
Graham Drabble
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Voting closed at 23:59:59 GMT, 2nd December 2006.
Primary Votetaker: Richard Ashton <cmt2006 (at) voting.semolina.org>
[Originally Secondary]
Voluntarily withdrew: Pedt Scragg <com2k06 (at) mx2.org.uk>
[Originally Primary until 2006-11-14]
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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:
Chris Croughton Candidate A
Graham Drabble Candidate B
Kat aka Fiona Gostling Candidate C
Lt. Cmdr. Jim Candidate D
Wm Candidate E
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Summary of Mail Received During the Voting Period
85 messages were received to the Ballot Request Address, of which:
84 were valid Ballot Requests
1 was a test message sent by the votetaker
76 messages were received to the Voting Address, of which:
68 were valid and counted votes
2 were valid votes subsequently superseded by the voter
2 were valid votes subsequently duplicated by the voter
1 was deemed invalid due to the voter placing two candidates equal,
this was NACKed but the voter did not revote.
1 was deemed invalid due to the acknowledgement having bounced, but
the voter revoted from a alternate address
1 was an abstention
1 was a test by the 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 Elections 2006
Stage 1
Total Valid Vote: 68
Places to be filled +1: 4
So Quota = 68/4
Quota = 17.00
First Preferences
Chris_Croughton 38.00
Graham_Drabble 9.00
Kat_aka_Fiona_Gostling 14.00
Lt._Cmdr._Jim 4.00
Wm 3.00
Chris_Croughton ELECTED
with 38.00
over quota 17.00
Active Vote: 51.00
Places left+1: 3
Vote required for election now: 17.00
Stage 2
No candidates can be excluded, so we transfer the largest surplus
Surplus of Chris_Croughton
Graham_Drabble gets 10 papers.
Kat_aka_Fiona_Gostling gets 19 papers.
Lt._Cmdr._Jim gets 5 papers.
Wm gets 4 papers.
38 papers transferred.
Total Present Value: 38.00
0 papers non-transferable.
Calculating transfer value: 21.00/38
Papers transferred at 0.55
Graham_Drabble now has 14.50 votes.
Kat_aka_Fiona_Gostling now has 24.45 votes.
Lt._Cmdr._Jim now has 6.75 votes.
Wm now has 5.20 votes.
0.10 votes non-transferable.
Kat_aka_Fiona_Gostling ELECTED
with 24.45
over quota 17.00
Active Vote: 33.90
Places left+1: 2
Vote required for election now: 16.95
Stage 3
No candidates can be excluded, so we transfer the largest surplus
Surplus of Kat_aka_Fiona_Gostling
Graham_Drabble gets 10 papers.
Lt._Cmdr._Jim gets 7 papers.
Wm gets 2 papers.
19 papers transferred.
Total Present Value: 10.45
0 papers non-transferable.
Calculating transfer value: 7.45/19
Papers transferred at 0.39
Graham_Drabble now has 18.40 votes.
Lt._Cmdr._Jim now has 9.48 votes.
Wm now has 5.98 votes.
0.04 votes non-transferable.
Graham_Drabble ELECTED
with 18.40
over quota 17.00
***Finished***
In grid format, this is expressed as follows:
UK Usenet Committee Elections 2006
Number to be elected: 3 (from 5)
Counted votes: 68
Quota for election on first round: 17
1st Stage 2 Stage 3
Pref T A T A
38 -21.00 17.00 17.00 Elected Chris Croughton
9 +5.50 14.50 +3.90 18.40 Elected Graham Drabble
14 +10.45 24.45 -7.45 17.00 Elected Kat aka Fiona Gostling
4 +2.75 6.75 +2.73 9.48 Lt. Cmdr. Jim
3 +2.20 5.20 +0.78 5.98 Wm
+0.10 0.10 +0.04 0.14 Non-transferable
68 68.00 68.00 Totals
Key to grid:
Stage 2 - Surplus of Chris Croughton
Stage 3 - Surplus of Kat aka Fiona Gostling
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 Email
Adam D. Barratt usenet+vote-ctte2006+adam-barratt!gro#ku
Adam Price adam+usenet#pappnase$oc#ku
Alan LeHun zzukvote~lehun*clara$oc#ku
Alex D. Baxter alex-news$oenone?demon$oc#ku
Ali ali_on_usenet+ntlworld%moc
Ali Hopkins alisonhopkins1~btinternet%moc
Andrew Hodgson andrew$hodgsonfamily!gro
anonimulo anonimulo2003%yahoo%moc
Anthony R. Gold bigfoot?davros!gro
Brett Paul Dunbar brett?dimetrodon?demon$oc#ku
Charles Lindsey chl*clerew%man*ca#ku
Chris Croughton chris#keristor+ten
Clive Feather clive?davros!gro
Clive R Robertson vote2006*clive!gro#ku
Colin Rosenstiel usenet%rosenstiel*cix$oc#ku
Darren Longhorn darrenlonghorn=yahoo%moc
Dave Hillam dave&hillam!gro#ku
Dave Mayall dave$research-group$oc#ku
Dave Williams dave*clues%moc
David Uri daviduri~bigfoot%moc
Debbie Herring debbie*cybertheology+ten
Dick Gaughan dg?dickgaughan$oc#ku
Geoff Berrow response*ckdog$oc#ku
gizbon gizbon!higs$oc#ku
Goalie of the Century mjp*crowsnest$oc#ku
Graham Drabble graham?drabble*em#ku
Graham Murray newspost!gmurray!gro#ku
Grant com2k06vote%mason&hs
Guy Morgan guy+firstlight*plus%moc
Ian Clifton ian*clifton*chem$ox*ca#ku
James Bentall james~bentall+ten
James Farrar james$farrar!gmail%moc
Jim Crowther Don't_spam^wotmeworry!gro#ku
Jim Riley jimrtex+pipeline%moc
John Bean john^waterfoot+ten
John Hall john$jhall$oc#ku
John the R-T ajp_32~beeb+ten
Jonathan Wheeler jfw73&rl*ca#ku
kat kat+news+ntlworld%moc
Kevin Ashley K#Ashley+ulcc*ca#ku
Kimbo bykimbo!gmail%moc
Lt Cmdr. Jim jim%us-lot!gro
Mark Goodge mark!good-stuff$oc#ku
Martyn Bailey m!101fc+ten
Maurice Bickerstaff maurice+theoldpost#plus%moc
Mike Fleming mike+tauzero$oc#ku
Mike Tullett mtullett+ntlworld%moc
MJ Ray mjr%phonecoop$ocop
Molly Mockford com2006%mollymockford$em#ku
Nadeem nadeem#k2magic+ten
Owen Rees owenrees^waitrose%moc
paul {voter}^watman*clara$oc#ku
Paul Carpenter paul~pcserviceselectronics$oc#ku
Paul Cummins paul*cummins$ie%eu!gro
Paul Giverin paul!giverin$oc#ku
Paul Harper paul+harper+ten
Peter Parry peter^wpp$ltd#ku
Peter Robinson pmrobinson!gmx+ten
Peter Smyth psmyth!gmx+ten
Philip Powell philip~blencathra!gro#ku
Rex M F Smith ukusenet$voter!gehena?demon$oc#ku
Richard Clayton richard*highwayman%moc
Robbie Irvine robbie~babblings!gro#ku
Roger Hayter roger+hayter?demon$oc#ku
Ronan Flood ronan+noc&ulcc*ca#ku
sparhawk sparhawk2+ntlworld%moc
Thomas Lee tfl+psp$oc#ku
Tony Wright adw%saska$oc#ku
Wm tcnw81+tarrcity?demon$oc#ku
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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:
Candidate Rankings
Voter ID A B C D E
================ =============
021b910196b56093 2 3 1 5 4
03fdde6f33c16fd2 2 3 1 4 5
0abe1f839b0c657a 1 5 3 2 4
0c8b90d5a30a3a6d 3 2 4 5 1
0cd9319fbee51a42 1 2 3 4 -
0fb51289e9839e14 2 4 1 3 5
1607eb1b78e283d5 4 1 3 2 5
17abb83b01ffa1c7 1 4 3 2 5
24b0f82ce91f5843 2 1 4 3 5
2c72f4f69559b5b7 2 1 3 4 5
2fc77749abc91c40 1 3 2 5 4
34e71b6df27a69c6 1 4 2 3 5
378d83f0a0bd8453 1 5 3 4 2
3c672e18388982b8 2 3 1 4 5
3e94aafec4563e6c 1 3 2 4 5
3ef5111773bebfdf A A A A A
44b595ea91a876dd 3 4 1 2 5
593cd55fd6a61538 1 5 3 4 2
61c5192b4b1e07e8 - 1 2 3 4
62714a3c6e9d51dd 1 2 3 4 5
633fca6e26486432 3 4 2 1 5
6890bf8e903439a6 2 3 1 - -
6a8bb4058407f41e 1 - 2 3 -
6b909139af6d8b11 1 4 2 5 3
714427b411782363 1 2 3 4 -
75829f1f05a57205 2 1 3 4 5
77c5188620ec820d 2 3 4 1 5
7a1caba278711033 1 4 2 3 5
7ea69c5488109fae 1 5 2 3 4
842bf267f0745d5f 1 4 3 5 2
856c47c6349f7ede 2 3 1 4 5
874268354cdad670 4 3 2 1 5
896bc2a24f45de68 2 1 3 - -
8adac7d0b84d0bac 1 2 4 3 -
8ba3615c059bd59b 1 5 2 4 3
8c8a4128218a7dcb 1 4 3 5 2
8f88a8b1e46f9f2b 1 3 4 2 5
9122f5a1dd5e155d 1 4 2 3 5
98940dbf45c00160 1 4 2 3 5
9bfb2ae83288486f 2 1 3 4 5
9dc674aede6cf507 1 3 2 4 5
a442b3ce44f37b05 2 4 1 3 5
a4d76e8731ee61f8 5 3 2 1 4
a63665d27d2e1299 1 2 3 4 5
ac9c0480667df79e 2 3 1 4 5
ad1713d6bae71159 3 2 4 - 1
aeab7b4131ee5615 2 1 4 3 5
afa5f5d40e4fd7b9 1 2 3 4 -
b0ef1d451480aa1f 1 3 2 4 5
b61a5b94b1feee19 1 3 4 2 5
b8ce1dca55834de4 2 1 3 4 5
b9a9327d2de588c9 1 2 4 3 5
be4ec08796e094dc 1 3 2 4 5
c258e3901f3bf623 1 4 3 2 5
c61b33845b386c50 1 4 2 3 5
ca8c33f614900719 3 2 1 5 4
cdf78ac8a4f227a2 2 5 1 3 4
dd08c287323d641e 5 4 3 2 1
e059c7baef140603 2 - 1 - 3
e39c19045beee4b8 1 2 5 3 4
e8c6830e7cd5b93d 1 2 4 3 5
ec797b688f922cde 2 4 1 3 5
f070588a557339a9 1 2 3 4 5
f28efc6de56a58a3 1 3 2 4 5
f69055f7fc249026 2 4 1 - 3
f97f8e8194f0e1b1 1 3 2 4 5
fc47d1fe89401ba1 1 3 2 4 5
fcb3a50545ac6c41 1 3 2 4 5
ff2f28df216d4148 1 3 2 4 5
Key: - = No preference expressed for that candidate
A = Abstained
If you wish to check that your vote has been correctly recorded, your
Voter ID can be found on your ballot paper and your acknowledgement.
It should be noted that the Voter 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
Richard:-
I took over the vote, somewhat unexpectedly, after Pedt had a personal
issue involving more important things than Usenet votes.
From that point the vote proceeded very smoothly just the odd broken
mail server, and spam filters, delaying the acknowledgements.
I would like to congratulate Chris, Kat and Graham.
The voting numbers continue to decrease but I think that there is
still a point in voting.
2003 131
2004 109
2005 103
2006 69
Pedt:-
First of all I'd like to express my thanks to Richard for taking
over the vote at very short notice and keeping it running smoothly
after I voluntarily withdrew.
Nothing to report for the nomination stage other than emails were
sent out in response to the nomination forms and were duly responded
to. My thanks to those contacted for their very swift replies, which
contributed to the smooth running of this phrase.
It has already been acknowledged that a subtle error crept into one
of the candidates email addresses on the CFV and ballot paper. This
was corrected on the ballot paper as soon as I became aware of the
error. Regrettably, with the accumulation of circumstances it was not
corrected on the second CFV. This did not compromise the vote as there
was no doubt as to the identity of the candidate.
Finally, my commiserations to those not elected and congratulations to
the winners.
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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
CFVs in the uk hierarchy. The rules under which this vote is 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 corrected 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 resigning from the Committee
Open Member Class:
Fiona Gostling (aka 'Kat')
Chris Croughton
Jim Clokey (aka 'Lt. Cmdr. Jim')
who have served their respective terms.
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Candidates:
5 nominations have been received. The committee has 3 vacancies and
therefore an election will be held to fill the 3 vacancies.
A list of the candidates is below (in alphabetical order by name).
Candidates:
Chris Croughton Candidate A
Graham Drabble Candidate B
Kat aka Fiona Gostling Candidate C
Lt. Cmdr. Jim Candidate D
Wm Candidate E
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 : Chris Croughton
E-Mail: chris (at) keristor (dot) net
Nominators
Name : kat
E-Mail: kat.news (at) ntlworld (dot) com
Name : Adam Price
E-Mail: adam+usenet (at) pappnase (dot) co (dot) uk
Name : Wm...
E-Mail: tcnw81 (at) tarrcity (dot) demon (dot) co (dot) uk
Name : John Hall
E-Mail: john (at) jhall (dot) co (dot) uk
Statement:
I think anyone likely to vote probably knows me by now. I've been on
Usenet since 1992, in various newsgroups, will have been on the UK
Usenet Committee for 3 years next January, and have been Control for
uk.* since April 2004. I've never hidden my Usenet activities so
Google
should have a complete record (I'm the only "Chris Croughton" as far
as
I can tell).
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Candidate B
Name : Graham Drabble
E-Mail: graham (at) drabble (dot) me (dot) uk
Nominators
Name : Charles Lindsey
E-Mail: chl (at) clerew.man (dot) ac (dot) uk
Name : Chris Croughton
E-Mail: chris (at) keristor (dot) net
Name : Kat
E-Mail: kat (dot) news (at) ntlworld (dot) com
Name : Dick Gaughan
E-Mail: dg (at) dickgaughan (dot) co (dot) uk
Statement:
There's not really much for me to say here, having been on the
committee in the past you pretty much know what you're getting.
Basically I'm reasonably happy with the system as it stands though am
always happy to look for tweaks. In general I prefer to work on an
informal basis building concensus rather than imposing a decision.
The one thing I would like to improve is the involvement of news
admins in the process, which is something that could (and IMO should)
be done across hierarchies since the issues are very similar for all.
Also I feel I ought to say at this point that work requires me to do
a lot of travel (I will be out the country for most of November). I
should be able to check email / Usenet from wherever I am but it may
not be every night.
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Candidate C
Name : Kat aka Fiona Gostling
E-Mail: kat (dot) news (at) ntlworld (dot) com
Nominators
Name : Graham Drabble
E-Mail: graham (at) drabble (dot) me (dot) uk
Name : Wm
E-Mail: tcnw81 (at) tarrcity (dot) demon (dot) co (dot) uk
Name : Alison Hopkins
E-Mail: alisonhopkins1 (at) btinternet (dot) com
Name : John Bean
E-Mail: waterfoot (at) gmail (dot) com
Statement:
When I stood for election three years ago I said I felt I would be able
to offer the views of the ordinary user and I hope I have done that.
It has been very quiet for the last year or so, and I hope this suggests
that the hierarchy is running smoothly. It would be nice to see more
happening though, and if elected I would continue to do what I can to
aid the processes.
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Candidate D
Name : Lt. Cmdr. Jim
E-Mail: jim (at) us-lot (dot) org
Nominators
Name : Dr Zoidberg
E-Mail: alex (at) drzoidberg (dot) co (dot) uk
Name : Sparhawk
E-Mail: sparhawk2 (at) ntlworld (dot) com
Name : Alison Hopkins
E-Mail: alisonhopkins1 (at) btinternet (dot) com
Name : Chris Croughton
E-Mail: chris (at) keristor (dot) org
Statement:
During my three years on the Committee, I have successfully managed not
to do anything monumentally stupid in my official capacity. This being
(in my opinion) the most important function of a Committee member, I
will stand for re-election on a platform of continuing not to cause
major explosions, avoiding disastrous blunders, and hardly ever crashing
the Black Helicopter. Or you could vote for one of the several other
candidates who are also perfectly competent, it's up to you really.
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Candidate E
Name : Wm
E-Mail: tcnw81 (at) tarrcity (dot) demon (dot) co (dot) uk
Nominators
Name : kat
E-Mail: kat (dot) news (at) ntlworld (dot) com
Name : Chris
E-Mail: chris (at) keristor (dot) net
Name : Martyn Bailey (aka Mother)
E-Mail: m (at) 101fc (dot) net
Name : Paul
E-Mail: paul (at) harper (dot) net
Statement:
Like most people I have a name, mine is William Tarr. I have purposely
chosen a mix of nominators that reflect some of my views of how uk.* is.
ChrisC is the best control we've had for a long time. Kat is nice and
came to uk.* from an unexpected older place. Martyn is thoughtful and
fun as is Paul; I think uk.* needs a sense of humour about itself and a
mix of people if it is to survive. If it isn't fun people will stop
doing it and that would be the end of what I believe is the best managed
usenet hierarchy in the world. Enough about them; I've only a few lines
left (Pedt allowed me a generous 15, so I'll squeeze in a word or two to
say that I think UKV is good and the fact that we think about our voting
is better than hierarchies that don't). I'm in favour of new groups
where support is shown but also in favour of a tidy hierarchy which
means that I lean towards group removal where appropriate. I also like
savoury things. Did you hear the one about ... rats, end of speech.
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