04 Aug 2005: uk.gay-lesbian-bi Moderator Elections 2005


From: Pedt Scragg <p.scragg@ukvoting.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 18:28:22 GMT
Subject: RESULT : uk.gay-lesbian-bi Moderator Elections 2005
Newsgroups: uk.gay-lesbian-bi

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                         RESULTS OF CALL FOR VOTES
                 uk.glb Moderation Panel Elections 2005

Summary:

All of the candidates are elected, in the following order:

Lyn David Thomas
Dale
Yaz Merchant
Mike B
Gregoire Kretz
Bryan
Deane Saunders


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Voting closed at 23:59:59 BST, 26th July 2005.

Votetaker: Pedt Scragg <glb05-query (at) pedt.demon.co.uk>


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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
2) Particulars of the Vote
3) Votetakers comments
4) Voting and Appeal guidelines
5) Election Guidelines


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1) Result

uk,glb Moderator Elections 2005
30/07/2005

Stage 1
Total Valid Vote: 12
Places to be filled +1: 8
So Quota = 12/8
Quota = 1.50

First Preferences
Dale 3.00
Lyn David Thomas 5.00
Gregoire Kretz 0.00
Bryan 0.00
Deane Saunders 0.00
Yaz Merchant 2.00
Mike B 2.00
RON 0.00

Lyn David Thomas ELECTED
with 5.00
over quota 1.50


Dale ELECTED
with 3.00
over quota 1.50


Yaz Merchant ELECTED
with 2.00
over quota 1.50


Mike B ELECTED
with 2.00
over quota 1.50

Active Vote: 6.00
Places left+1: 4
Vote required for election now: 1.50



Stage 2
No candidates can be excluded, so we transfer the largest surplus
Surplus of Lyn David Thomas
Gregoire Kretz gets 3 papers.
Bryan gets 1 papers.

4 papers transferred.
Total Present Value: 4.00
1 papers non-transferable.
Calculating transfer value: 3.50/4
Papers transferred at 0.87
Gregoire Kretz now has 2.61 votes.
Bryan now has 0.87 votes.
0.02 votes non-transferable.


Gregoire Kretz ELECTED
with 2.61
over quota 1.50

Active Vote: 4.48
Places left+1: 3
Vote required for election now: 1.50



Stage 3
No candidates can be excluded, so we transfer the largest surplus
Surplus of Dale
Bryan gets 2 papers.
Deane Saunders gets 1 papers.

3 papers transferred.
Total Present Value: 3.00
0 papers non-transferable.
Calculating transfer value: 1.50/3
Papers transferred at 0.50
Bryan now has 1.87 votes.
Deane Saunders now has 0.50 votes.


Bryan ELECTED
with 1.87
over quota 1.50

Active Vote: 2.98
Places left+1: 2
Vote required for election now: 1.49



Stage 4
No candidates can be excluded, so we transfer the largest surplus
Surplus of Gregoire Kretz
Deane Saunders gets 2 papers.

2 papers transferred.
Total Present Value: 1.74
1 papers non-transferable.
Calculating transfer value: 1.11/2
Papers transferred at 0.55
Deane Saunders now has 1.60 votes.
0.01 votes non-transferable.


Deane Saunders ELECTED
with 1.60
over quota 1.50

***Finished***


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2) Particulars of the Vote

The following people posted valid votes:

Bryan                news ? heian # org # uk
Dale                 abuse ? webeye # freeserve # co # uk
David Boothroyd      david ? election # demon # co # uk
Gregoire Kretz       gktz ? heian # org # uk

Lyn David Thomas     lyn ? trebute # fsnet # co # uk
Mark                 MarrkN19 ? aol # com
Moira                giggler ? giggler # org # uk
Neil Matthews        neil ? chaos # org # uk

Paul                 {voter} ? watman # clara # co # uk
Paul G               notion ? paddington # org # uk
Pete Baggett         pete ? wulfrunian # net
Yaz                  yaz ? good # co # uk


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 valid votes with the Unique ID
for people to identify their votes and the way people voted:


 Re-Open Nominations ------------------------\
 Mike B              ---------------------\  |
 Yaz Merchant        ------------------\  |  |
 Deane Saunders      ---------------\  |  |  |
 Bryan               ------------\  |  |  |  |
 Gregoire Kretz      ---------\  |  |  |  |  |
 Lyn David Thomas    ------\  |  |  |  |  |  |
 Dale                ---\  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
                        |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
    Voter ID            |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
 1ac7e1e8f694ac11       7  6  2  3  5  4  1  N
 1fbf5b58e145e8e1       4  1  2  3  N  5  N  N
 28f93b27c68ce5d2       5  1  4  3  6  2  7  N
 6f5b2b99be0598de       4  3  2  5  6  1  7  8

 74180e5a36dc7485       1  2  3  4  5  6  8  7
 74f0e40d41967d42       1  6  5  4  2  3  7  N
 8adbdb3871e087d1       7  1  3  6  5  4  2  8
 8eb5fa088be1aa37       4  3  2  6  7  1  5  N

 afae19e60d4efa3b       1  2  3  4  5  6  7  N
 b3900fa6a6406700       N  1  N  N  N  N  N  N
 b4aaceb7acf98444       4  5  6  7  2  3  1  N
 c8839141a84430de       5  1  2  3  7  4  6  8

Note: N = No preference expressed


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3) Votetaker Comments

The vote was totally without any incident, no messed up votes,
no bounces, no ballot paper filled in incorrectly, no invalid votes.

My thanks to the voters for making this the most straightforward
vote that I have handled.


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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 Moderator Elections 2005

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