28 Sep 2008: UK Usenet Committee Elections 2008 - Call for Nominations

From: Barry Salter <bsalter@ukvoting.org.uk>
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:00:24 +0100
Subject: RESULT - UK Usenet Commitee Elections 2008
Newsgroups: uk.net.news.announce,uk.net.news.config,uk.net.news.management

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

                     Result of Call for Nominations
                   UK Usenet Committee Elections 2008


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 unopposed to serve as Open Members of
the UK Usenet Committee until December 2011:

        Geoff Berrow
        Mark Goodge

NB: This leaves one vacancy on the Committee for this class.

======================================================================

Nominations closed at 23:59:59 BST, 23rd September 2008.

  Primary Votetaker: Barry Salter <com2k08-query (at) southie.me.uk>
Secondary Votetaker: Alex Holden <com08nom (at) alexholden.co.uk>

========================================================================

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) Summary of Mail Received During the Nominations Period
2) Candidates
3) Votetaker's Comments
4) Voting and Appeal Information

======================================================================

Summary of Mail Received During the Nominations Period

  7 messages were received to the Nominations Address, of which:

  2 were valid nominations which were later confirmed
  1 was rejected as the would be nominator put the names of two
    candidates on the nomination form, with himself as sole nominator
  4 were test messages by the votetaker to ensure the forwarding was
    working correctly following the DNS issues on the first day

========================================================================

Candidates:

Two nominations were received. The Committee had three vacancies for the
Open Class, therefore no Election was necessary and both candidates were
elected unopposed.

A list of the candidates is below (in alphabetical order by surname).

Candidates:

Geoff Berrow                         Candidate A
Mark Goodge                          Candidate B

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  : Geoff Berrow
E-Mail: bl (at) ckdog (dot) co (dot) uk

Nominators

Name  : Wm
E-Mail: tcnw81 (at) tarrcity (dot) demon (dot) co (dot) uk

Name  : Molly Mockford
E-Mail: com2008 (at) mollymockford (dot) me (dot) uk

Name  : Chris Croughton
E-Mail: chris (at) keristor (dot) org

Name  : Charles Lindsey
E-Mail: chl (at) clerew (dot) man (dot) ac (dot) uk

Statement:

None provided.

========================================================================

Candidate B

Name  : Mark Goodge
E-Mail: com2008 (at) good-stuff (dot) co (dot) uk

Nominators

Name  : Molly Mockford
E-Mail: com2008 (at) mollymockford (dot) me (dot) uk

Name  : Clive Feather
E-Mail: clive (at) demon (dot) net

Name  : 'kat'
E-Mail: kat (dot) news (at) ntlworld (dot) com

Name  : Martyn Bailey
E-Mail: nospam (at) nominet (dot) name

Statement:

I've been doing this job for the past three years, I'm happy to continue
if that's what the electorate wants. 

========================================================================

Votetaker's Comments

Barry:-

I think it's safe to say that this is the first time that I can recall
there being insufficient candidates for the OPEN class to not need an
Election.

The last record I can find of there being less candidates is the 2000
Committee Elections, where Peter Corlett was elected unopposed as a New
Class candidate.

After the initial DNS-related teething troubles, the rest of the process
has gone fairly smoothly, apart from the person listed above who didn't
read the nomination instructions.

Alex:-

Barry, as ever, ran a faultless operation making my job as
secondary votetaker extremely easy.  Needless to say I also think
that the shortage of nominations is notable.

========================================================================

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.

======================================================================

(The information in this and the following section is a copy of that
provided in the Call for Nominations)

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 retiring from the Committee

Open Member Class:

Geoff Berrow
Mark Goodge
Alison Hopkins

All of whom have served their three year term.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG-v1.4.6-(GNU/Linux)
Charset: noconv

iQCVAwUBSN/+fGOfGXkh8vHZAQIm3AP/cdBoZeG3t1ylqBRZZ0erQSovza7cO4im
iD6vwcgqiRaPopGrUbRLcJXz+JoBJyL2lsD5P8zWPVy+S+tSMtvZpZo4yCIQfgh0
zsjhvb3DyWPnqn42zl0DrgK1uATOUi/WRcFrmqpLDlbEiCe8VFmfNUb1SvZ16cwq
Jsx38cf8+uw=
=U/Vx
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----