04 Jun 2008: uk.gay-lesbian-bi Moderator Elections 2008
From: "Barry Salter" <bsalter@ukvoting.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 22:44:47 GMT
Subject: RESULT - uk.gay-lesbian-bi Moderation Panel Elections 2008
Newsgroups: uk.gay-lesbian-bi
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RESULTS OF CALL FOR VOTES
uk.glb Moderation Panel Elections 2008
Summary:
All of the candidates are elected, in the following order:
Lyn David Thomas
Paul Anderson
Stephen M Baines
Robert Marshall
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Voting closed at 23:59:59 BST, 1st June 2008.
Votetaker: Barry Salter <bsalter (at) ukvoting (dot) org (dot) uk>
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Distribution:
uk.gay-lesbian-bi
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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
Stephen M Baines
Robert Marshall
eSTV output:
uk.gay-lesbian-bi Moderation Panel Elections 2008
02/06/2008
Stage 1
Total Valid Vote: 8
Places to be filled +1: 5
So Quota = 8/5
Quota = 1.60
First Preferences
Lyn David Thomas 3.00
Paul Anderson 3.00
Robert Marshall 0.00
Stephen M Baines 2.00
Re-Open Nominations 0.00
Lyn David Thomas ELECTED
with 3.00
over quota 1.60
Paul Anderson ELECTED
with 3.00
over quota 1.60
Stephen M Baines ELECTED
with 2.00
over quota 1.60
Active Vote: 3.20
Places left+1: 2
Vote required for election now: 1.60
Stage 2
No candidates can be excluded, so we transfer the largest surplus
Surplus of Paul Anderson
Robert Marshall gets 3 papers.
3 papers transferred.
Total Present Value: 3.00
0 papers non-transferable.
Calculating transfer value: 1.40/3
Papers transferred at 0.46
Robert Marshall now has 1.38 votes.
0.02 votes non-transferable.
Active Vote: 3.18
Places left+1: 2
Vote required for election now: 1.59
Stage 3
No candidates can be excluded, so we transfer the largest surplus
Surplus of Lyn David Thomas
Robert Marshall gets 3 papers.
3 papers transferred.
Total Present Value: 3.00
0 papers non-transferable.
Calculating transfer value: 1.40/3
Papers transferred at 0.46
Robert Marshall now has 2.76 votes.
0.02 votes non-transferable.
Robert Marshall ELECTED
with 2.76
over quota 1.60
***Finished***
In grid format, this is expressed as follows:
uk.gay-lesbian-bi Moderation Panel Elections 2008
Number to be elected: 4 (from 5)
Counted votes: 8
Quota for election on first round: 1.60
1st Stage 2 Stage 3
Pref T A T A
3 3.00 -1.40 1.60 Elect Lyn David Thomas
3 -1.40 1.60 1.60 Elect Paul Anderson
0 1.38 1.38 1.38 2.76 Elect Robert Marshall
2 2.00 2.00 Elect Stephen M Baines
0 0.00 0.00 Re-Open Nominations
0.02 0.02 0.02 0.04 Non-transferable
8 8.00 8.00 Totals
Key to grid:
Stage 2 - Surplus of Paul Anderson
Stage 3 - Surplus of Lyn David Thomas
T = number of votes transferred at this stage
A = votes for candidate after transfer
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2) Particulars of the Vote
11 emails were received at the ballot paper request address.
These were
1 test by the votetaker
10 ballot requests
11 emails were received at the vote submission address.
These were
2 tests by the votetaker
8 valid votes
1 duplicated vote
The following people posted valid votes:
Gregoire Ketz gktzh eiano rguk
Lyn David Thomas lynci bwror g
mark Marrk N19ao lcom
Neil Matthews neilc haoso rguk
paul {vote r}wat mancl araco uk
Paul G notio npadd ingto norgu k
robert marshall rober tchez marsh allfr eeser vecou k
Stephen M Baines usene tkits chcam ppala ceorg uk
As per the charter:
ii. 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 ---------\ | |
Paul Anderson ------\ | | |
Lyn David Thomas ---\ | | | |
| | | | |
Voter ID | | | | |
226aea04509c85cb 1 2 4 3 -
348c12da646d5510 3 - 2 1 -
351756d46f20b4af 4 1 3 2 -
4e062965a9db7906 2 1 3 - 4
99c5777ba56b6672 4 1 2 3 -
c52f8a7cb6601f20 3 4 2 1 -
c6921f98e38ac4a7 1 4 3 2 5
f815f639c68cf821 1 2 3 4 5
Key:
- = No preference expressed
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 requested a ballot paper to a spamtrapped email address. The
potential voter did correct this following a conversation with the
votetaker. 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 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.
That aside, the actual vote was without any incident, no messed up
votes, no bounces, no ballot papers filled in incorrectly and no
invalid votes.
The voting procedures still seem to make the whole Elections procedure
unnecessary, and (once again, again) I hope the charter is amended in
time for the next run.
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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:
<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.gay-lesbian-bi
Allegations of irregularity should be sent to
ukvoting@ukvoting.org.uk.
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5) Moderation Panel Elections Guidelines
>From the charter for uk.glb:
Election
2 Initially moderators shall be the panel elected as part of
the charter change process.
3. Then each year there after 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 vote taker. The vote taker 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 vote taker 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 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.
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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CANDIDATES
Lyn David Thomas Candidate A
Paul Anderson Candidate B
Robert Marshall Candidate C
Stephen M Baines Candidate D
Please find below details of the people who nominated each candidate
(Name & Email Address) and a short statement from each candidate:
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Candidate A:
-=-=-=-=-=-=
Name: Lyn David Thomas
E-Mail: news (at) cibwr (dot) org
Nominators:
-=-=-=-=-=-
Name: Lyn David Thomas
E-Mail: news (at) cibwr (dot) org
Name: Paul Anderson
E-Mail: usenet (at) watman (dot) clara (dot) co (dot) uk
Statement:
-=-=-=-=-=
I put myself forward not with any enthusiasm but because I believe that
the job needs to be done and I have some experience in this. If
sufficient candidates come forward I am happy to withdraw and let
others have a slice of the fun of moderating :-)
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Candidate B:
-=-=-=-=-=-=
Name: Paul Anderson
E-Mail: usenet (at) watman (dot) clara (dot) co (dot) uk
Nominators:
-=-=-=-=-=-
Name: Lyn David Thomas
E-Mail: lyn (at) cibwr (dot) plus (dot) com
Name: Mark Smith
E-Mail: MarrkN19 (at) aol (dot) com
Statement:
-=-=-=-=-=
Though lately having posted intermittently, I do value the group.
Since the moderation team do the spam-weeding and what-not to keep
uk.glb as readable, welcoming, and open as possible, I welcome this
opportunity to do something useful to ensure it remains viable, and am
willing to share in the task of moderation in accordance with the
charter.
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Candidate C:
-=-=-=-=-=-=
Name: Robert Marshall
E-Mail: robert (at) chezmarshall (dot) freeserve (dot) co (dot) uk
Nominators:
-=-=-=-=-=-
Name: paul anderson
E-Mail: usenet (at) watman (dot) clara (dot) co (dot) uk
Name: lyn david thomas
E-Mail: new (at) cibwr (dot) org
Statement:
-=-=-=-=-=
I seem to have moderating for two years, I'm happy to let my name go
forward for another!
I have aspirations (when busyness recedes(!)) to sort out and
reoraganise (and re-spell) the process for this group so that
moderation is less of a chore and so that more may feel happy to serve
(so beware!!)
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Candidate D:
-=-=-=-=-=-=
Name: Stephen M Baines
E-Mail: usenet (at) localhost (dot) kitschcamppalace (dot) org (dot) uk
Nominators:
-=-=-=-=-=-
Name: paul anderson
E-Mail: usenet (at) watman (dot) clara (dot) co (dot) uk
Name: Robert Marshall
E-Mail: spam (at) chezmarshall (dot) freeserve (dot) co (dot) uk
Statement:
-=-=-=-=-=
I've been a regular user for fast approaching 10 years, and have tried
to help when I can, and I figure it's my turn to once again delete the
spam. I won't be around all the time, due to work, but when I am, I am.
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