Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newspeer1.nwr.nac.net!bbc!caladan!news-peer-lilac.gradwell.net!not-for-mail From: "Richard Ashton" Newsgroups: uk.net.news.announce,uk.net.news.config,uk.net.news.management Subject: RESULT - UK Usenet Committee Elections 2006 Followup-To: uk.net.news.management Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:23:12 +0000 Message-ID: Sender: Chris Croughton as Control Approved: Chris Croughton as Control Lines: 667 NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.17.193.84 X-Trace: 1166736229 news.gradwell.net 763 control/82.17.193.84:34602 X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@gradwell.net Xref: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com uk.net.news.announce:3627 uk.net.news.config:230392 uk.net.news.management:69039 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- 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 ======================================================================== Voting closed at 23:59:59 GMT, 2nd December 2006. Primary Votetaker: Richard Ashton [Originally Secondary] Voluntarily withdrew: Pedt Scragg [Originally Primary until 2006-11-14] ======================================================================== Distribution: These results have been posted to the following newsgroups: uk.net.news.announce uk.net.news.config uk.net.news.management ======================================================================== 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 ====================================================================== 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 ====================================================================== 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. ====================================================================== 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 ====================================================================== 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 ====================================================================== 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. ======================================================================== 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. ====================================================================== 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: The UKVoting web pages can be found at 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. ====================================================================== (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. ======================================================================== 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. ======================================================================== 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. ======================================================================== 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. ======================================================================== 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). ======================================================================== 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. ======================================================================== 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. ======================================================================== 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. ======================================================================== 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. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG-v1.2.4-(GNU/Linux) Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBRYr7RWOfGXkh8vHZAQFIXAQAgYe9aFZ/+5LYRyo8ta6sphc9Fs2B4DV+ Amx6TTWnTJ9ZBHOt2DMwtk830PmyrRmydCEcYS1Kf2/EMQJ0kiRpluSRVI4y3pkL t8raNzxvU3iW3wJkHmyxla7+3DEp1iH0iycJ1A6vxdyIwRLYd9tRTwLR3i9Ja204 iF77qrTitfQ= =KH8o -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----