25 Sep 2003: Amend the Voting Guidelines (Petition for ROD)
From: Barry Salter <xrod01-query@salterg.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 12:38:04 +0100
Subject: RESULT : Amend the Voting Guidelines (Petition for ROD) PASSES 27 : 1
Newsgroups: uk.net.news.announce,uk.net.news.config,uk.net.news.management
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RESULT OF CALL FOR VOTES
Summary: Amend the Voting Guidelines (Petition for ROD)
PROPOSAL - Amend the Voting Guidelines (Petition for ROD) PASSES 27 : 1
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Voting closed at 23:59:59 BST, 20th September 2003.
Proponent: Graham Drabble <graham.drabble@lineone.net>
Primary Votetaker: Barry Salter <xrod01-query@salterg.demon.co.uk>
Secondary Votetaker: Molly Mockford <xrod01@mockfords.clara.co.uk>
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Distribution:
uk.net.news.announce, uk.net.news.config, uk.net.news.management
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The Results:
The results follow below in the following order:
1) Summary of Mail Received During the Voting Period
2) Results
3) Individual Vote Details
4) Votetakers Comments
5) Voting and Appeal Guidelines
6) Rationale & Proposal
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SUMMARY OF MAIL RECEIVED DURING THE VOTING PERIOD
46 messages were received to the Ballot Request Address, of which:
36 were valid Ballot Requests
6 were Trojan-loaded Messages sent by users infected with the Swen Worm
4 were Test Messages posted by the votetaker
31 messages were received to the Voting Address, of which:
29 were valid Votes
2 were Test Messages posted by the votetaker
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RESULTS:
PROPOSAL - Amend the Voting Guidelines (Petition for ROD)
YES : 27 votes
NO : 1 votes
ABSTAIN : 1 votes
Total : 29 votes
YES beat NO by a majority of 26 votes. For the proposal to pass, there
must be 12 more YES votes than NO votes. Accordingly, the proposal has
passed.
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INDIVIDUAL VOTE DETAILS
Name Address Vote
Adam D. Barratt vote+pro+rod+2003-08~#~adam-barratt.yookay.rgo YES
Barry Dorrans barryd~#~idunno.rgo YES
Brett Paul Dunbar brett~#~dimetrodon.demon.yookay.oc YES
Charles Lindsey chl~#~clerew.man.yookay.ca YES
Clive R Robertson prod~#~clive.yookay.rgo YES
Dave H dmh~#~dmh.yookay.rgo YES
Dave J. requiem~#~freeuk.moc ABSTAIN
Dave Mason xrod01~#~sarnie.yookay.rgo YES
David Uri daviduri~#~bigfoot.moc YES
Graham Drabble graham.drabble~#~lineone.ten YES
Jonathan Wheeler J.F.Wheeler~#~rl.yookay.ca YES
Lt. Cmddr. Jim jim~#~us-lot.rgo YES
Mike Fleming mike~#~tauzero.yookay.oc YES
Mike Tullett mike.tullett4~#~ntlworld.moc YES
Nigel Ashton nigel~#~nigelashton.demon.yookay.oc YES
Owen Rees owen.rees~#~tesco.ten YES
paul {voter}~#~watman.clara.yookay.oc YES
Paul Carpenter paul~#~pcserv.demon.yookay.oc YES
Paul Cummins paul~#~cummins.ie.eu.rgo YES
Pete The Gardener pete_the_gardener~#~hotmail.moc YES
Peter Robinson pmrobinson~#~gmx.ten YES
Peter Smyth psmyth~#~ukf.ten YES
Philip Powell philip~#~blencathra.yookay.rgo NO
Richard Kennaway jrk~#~cmp.uea.yookay.ca YES
Scott Taylor taylorscott67~#~yahoo.yookay.oc YES
Steve Firth voting~#~malloc.yookay.oc YES
Stuart O'Donnell spod~#~venicones.demon.yookay.oc YES
Thomas Lee tfl~#~psp.yookay.oc YES
Tim Sharrock tim~#~sharrock.yookay.rgo YES
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Votetakers Comments:
No major problems to report, apart from Control's attack of Real Life
causing the 2nd CFV to be posted late, so I decided to extend the
voting period by a week.
As mentioned above, 6 e-mails containing the Swen trojan were received
to the Ballot Request address, so this could become a major issue for
future CFVs.
Two votes were received to the address which the autoballots are sent
from (in this case, xrod01 <at> autoballot <dot> ukvoting), but they
were later resubmitted to the correct address.
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This vote was conducted by two neutral third party members 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.net.news.announce. Allegations of irregularity should be sent to
control@usenet.org.uk.
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RATIONALE:
Paragraph 8 of the voting guidelines state (w.r.t ROD) "Additionally,
this option shall be included in any ballot should the committee so
request, or if 4 or more people so petition during the RFD stage" but
does not make it clear how that petition should be made. In the past
people have suggested unnc, control@usenet.org.uk and
committee@usenet.org.uk all of which are reasonable but none are
guarenteed to be deemed the correct place when it comes to counting
them. Given that this option is most likely to be used during
controversial RFDs it seems sensible to specify somewhere now rather
than waiting for the argument that would follow the committee
deciding that objections to a certain place should / should not be
counted.
I have proposed having control@usenet.org.uk as the correct place as
that is used elsewhere, I'm open to reasons why it should by any of
the other places.
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PROPOSAL
Change point 8 of the voting procedures from
Additionally, this option shall be included in any ballot should the
committee so request, or if 4 or more people so petition during the
RFD stage.
to
Additionally, this option shall be included in any ballot should the
committee so request, or if 4 or more people so petition, by e-
mailing control@usenet.org.uk, during the RFD stage.
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