14 Jun 2006: uk.gay-lesbian-bi Moderation Panel Election 2006
From: Pedt Scragg <p.scragg@ukvoting.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 09:01:54 GMT
Subject: RESULT : uk.gay-lesbian-bi Moderation Panel Elections 2006
Newsgroups: uk.gay-lesbian-bi
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RESULTS OF CALL FOR VOTES
uk.glb Moderation Panel Elections 2006
Summary:
All of the candidates are elected, in the following order:
Lyn David Thomas
Paul Anderson
Paul G
Gus Bell
Robert Marshall
Stephen M Baines
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Voting closed at 23:59:59 BST, 6th June 2006.
Votetaker: Pedt Scragg <glb06-query (at) operations.force9.net>
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Distribution:
uk.gay-lesbian-bi
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The Results:
The results follow below in the following order:
1) Result in full
2) Particulars of the Vote
3) Votetakers comments
4) Voting and Appeal guidelines
5) Election Guidelines
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1) Result in full
All of the candidates are elected, in the following order:
Lyn David Thomas
Paul Anderson
Paul G
Gus Bell
Robert Marshall
Stephen M Baines
eSTV output:
uk.glb Moderation Panel Election 2006
07/06/2006
Reusing random seed.
Stage 1
Total Valid Vote: 11
Places to be filled +1: 7
So Quota = 11/7
Quota = 1.58
First Preferences
Paul Anderson 3.00
Paul G 2.00
Gus Bell 1.00
Lyn David Thomas 4.00
Robert Marshall 1.00
Stephen M Baines 0.00
Re-Open Nominations 0.00
Lyn David Thomas ELECTED
with 4.00
over quota 1.58
Paul Anderson ELECTED
with 3.00
over quota 1.58
Paul G ELECTED
with 2.00
over quota 1.58
Active Vote: 6.26
Places left+1: 4
Vote required for election now: 1.57
Stage 2
No candidates can be excluded, so we transfer the largest surplus
Surplus of Lyn David Thomas
Gus Bell gets 1 papers.
Robert Marshall gets 1 papers.
Stephen M Baines gets 1 papers.
3 papers transferred.
Total Present Value: 3.00
1 papers non-transferable.
Calculating transfer value: 2.42/3
Papers transferred at 0.80
Gus Bell now has 1.80 votes.
Robert Marshall now has 1.80 votes.
Stephen M Baines now has 0.80 votes.
0.02 votes non-transferable.
Gus Bell ELECTED
with 1.80
over quota 1.58
Robert Marshall ELECTED
with 1.80
over quota 1.58
Active Vote: 3.08
Places left+1: 2
Vote required for election now: 1.54
Stage 3
No candidates can be excluded, so we transfer the largest surplus
Surplus of Paul Anderson
Stephen M Baines gets 3 papers.
3 papers transferred.
Total Present Value: 3.00
0 papers non-transferable.
Calculating transfer value: 1.42/3
Papers transferred at 0.47
Stephen M Baines now has 2.21 votes.
0.01 votes non-transferable.
Stephen M Baines ELECTED
with 2.21
over quota 1.58
***Finished***
In grid format, this is expressed as follows:
uk.glb Moderation Panel Election 2006
Number to be elected: 6 (from 7)
Counted votes: 11
Quota for election on first round: 1.58
1st Stage 2 Stage 3
Pref T A T A
3 3.00 -1.42 1.58 Elect Paul Anderson
2 2.00 2.00 Elect Paul G
1 0.80 1.80 1.80 Elect Gus Bell
4 -2.42 1.58 1.58 Elect Lyn David Thomas
1 0.80 1.80 1.80 Elect Robert Marshall
0 0.80 0.80 1.41 2.21 Elect Stephen M Baines
0 0.00 0.00 Re-Open Nominations
0.02 0.02 0.01 0.03 Non-transferable
11 11.00 11.00 Totals
Key to grid:
Stage 2 - Surplus of Lyn David Thomas
Stage 3 - Surplus of Paul Anderson
T = number of votes transferred at this stage
A = votes for candidate after transfer
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2) Particulars of the Vote
20 emails were received at the ballot paper request address.
These were
1 test by the votetaker
19 ballot requests
15 emails were received at the vote submission address.
These were
1 test by the votetaker
11 valid votes
1 disallowed vote
1 duplicated vote
1 copy of query email sent by the votetaker
The following people posted valid votes:
Bryan news # heian ~ org ~ uk
Dale abuse ~ webeye # freeserve # co # uk
David Boothroyd david # election ~ demon ~ co ~ uk
Lyn David Thomas lyn ~ cibwr # org
Mark MarrkN19 # aol ~ com
Neil Matthews neil ~ chaos # org # uk
Paul Anderson {voter} # watman ~ clara ~ co ~ uk
Paul G notion ~ paddington # org # uk
Pete Baggett pete # wulfrunian ~ net
Robert Marshall robert ~ chezmarshall # freeserve # co # uk
Stephen M Baines usenet # kitschcamppalace ~ org ~ uk
The following vote was disallowed
Doug Duncan d_duncan ~ ntlworld # com
As per the charter:
vii. Each voter shall receive an acknowledgement from the vote
taker. They will be given a unique identification as part of their
acknowledgement, this will enable them to verify their vote when the
result is published while protecting their identity from other
voters.
viii. The vote taker will publish the result and a voting list
comprising voter identifiers and their vote.
And therefore the following are the votes with the Unique ID
for people to identify their votes and the way people voted:
Re-Open Nominations ---------------------\
Stephen M Baines ------------------\ |
Robert Marshall ---------------\ | |
Lyn David Thomas ------------\ | | |
Gus Bell ---------\ | | | |
Paul G ------\ | | | | |
Paul Anderson ---\ | | | | | |
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Voter ID | | | | | | |
03d662509ac51705 2 3 5 1 4 7 6
2d1cd2b910747fde - - - 1 - - -
45e98013b87ff527 1 2 3 4 5 6 -
769eb7802f44e17c 6 3 2 5 1 4 -
80bdcf39cb5df5f9 3 4 2 1 5 6 -
895077c3acc16db4 5 1 - 2 4 3 -
916f18a8ad525efd 6 5 1 3 2 4 7
a4e4f44eff39bb7c W W W W W W W
b0bf82cac7fa1ea4 1 3 6 2 4 5 -
cee0bbf0686fda92 1 2 6 3 5 4 7
d9c6b6896d92369b 2 5 6 1 4 3 7
ddc284925debd9d4 5 1 3 2 6 4 -
Key:
- = No preference expressed
W = Withheld - see votetaker comments.
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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3) Votetaker Comments
One voter twice requested a ballot paper to a spamtrapped email
address. The votetaker issued a ballot paper via the UKV server
following a conversation with the potential voter. Voters are
reminded that placing a spamtrapped address as the Subject: or
Reply-To: in emails requesting a ballot paper means that the
server will issue a ballot paper to the spamtrapped address and
not the From: address as email addresses in the Subject: or
Reply-To: headers override the From: address.
The disallowed vote was disallowed because the voter was not on
the final pre-approved list received from the server admin. The
voter was informed that their vote would be disallowed if they
were not on the pre-approved list at the end of the voting period
and were pointed to the relevant sections of the election rules
in the uk.glb charter.
It should be noted that the rules for the election state in (vii)
and (viii) that the voter identifiers and how they voted should
be published but makes no distinction between valid and disallowed
votes - in other words all votes should be published. (vii) requires
the votetaker to publish the results in such a manner as to protect
voter identities as to how they voted. In this vote, if the way
that the disallowed vote had voted was published, then it would
be possible from the list of IDs and voting preferences to ascertain
the way that the disallowed voter had voted. To preserve the privacy
of the voter in question, the votetaker has published the ID but
withheld the vote details of that vote. The votetaker would recommend
that consideration be given to changing (vii) and (viii) to publish
the vote preferences from valid votes only.
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4) Voting and Appeal guidelines
This vote was conducted by a neutral third party member 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:
<ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/usenet/news-info/news.answers/uk/voting>
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.gay-lesbian-bi
Allegations of irregularity should be sent to
ukvoting (at) ukvoting.org.uk.
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5) Moderation Panel Elections Guidelines
- --> From the charter of uk.gay-lesbian-bi
Election
2. Initially moderators shall be the panel elected as part of the
charter change process.
3. Then each year thereafter elections will be held for the posts of
moderator.
i. 11 months after moderation comes into effect (and every twelve
months subsequently) the moderation panel will appoint a neutral party
to conduct the election as votetaker. The votetaker will issue a call
for nominations for a new moderation panel.
ii. Nominations will be open for 10 days and to be valid each nominee
will have to be proposed and seconded by white list posters
(self-nomination is permitted). All white list posters shall have
the right to vote, regardless as to whether they were white listed
before or after the opening of nominations.
iii. At the end of 10 days a list of candidates (including their
proposers/seconders) will be published.
iv. A five day period of hustings will be held during which the
candidates will answer questions from posters to the group.
v. The votetaker will issue the first call for votes, to be
followed by a second call for votes five days later, the voting
period lasting in all for 10 days, votes shall only be valid if
submitted on official ballot forms.
vi. Voting will be by the Single Transferable Vote method, with
a reopen nominations candidate (RON) added to the ballot.
If RON passes the quota then all the then unfilled places are
void requiring a new election for those vacancies.
vii. Each voter shall receive an acknowledgement from the votetaker.
They will be given a unique identification as part of their
acknowledgement, this will enable them to verify their vote when the
result is published while protecting their identity from other
voters.
viii. The votetaker will publish the result and a voting list
comprising voter identifiers and their vote.
xi. In the event of less than 4 moderators being elected or RON
passing quota the vote taker will issue a second request for
nominations no later than 1 month after the close of ballot
and hold elections for the remaining vacancies.
Those elected at this election shall serve until the annual
round of elections are held.
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Pedt Scragg
Votetaker, uk.gay-lesbian-bi Moderation Panel Election 2006
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