Path: uni-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!zen.net.uk!dedekind.zen.co.uk!news-peer-lilac.gradwell.net!not-for-mail From: Jon Ribbens Newsgroups: uk.net.news.announce,uk.net.news.config,uk.net.news.management Subject: UKVoting Statement: 2004 Committee Elections Followup-To: uk.net.news.management Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 14:42:23 +0100 Message-ID: Sender: Chris Croughton as Control Approved: Chris Croughton as Control Lines: 38 NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Oct 2004 13:43:07 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.0.192.110 X-Trace: 1098538987 news.gradwell.net 94917 control/80.0.192.110 X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@gradwell.net Xref: uni-berlin.de uk.net.news.announce:3226 uk.net.news.config:195728 uk.net.news.management:62337 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- UKVoting have received a number of complaints relating to Richard Ashton's postings in uk.net.news.config/management during the application phase of the 2004 UK Usenet Committee elections. All of these complaints make the same point: that Richard Ashton has breached UKVoting guidelines by making partisan comments regarding election candidates. Having considered the matter, UKVoting have agreed that Richard's comments do breach the guidelines, and that it would be inappropriate for him to continue to act as a votetaker in these elections. Accordingly, Barry Salter will take over as primary votetaker, and Jim Hill will now act as secondary votetaker. This change is effective from 17:30 BST on Thursday 21st October. All official postings by Richard Ashton, including the CFA and application/nomination announcements, are still valid. All applications and nominations already received and acknowledged by Richard Ashton are unaffected. Any further applications and nominations received by the votetakers will be processed and acknowledged by the new primary and secondary votetakers. The CFV will be prepared and posted by the new primary votetaker. As a matter of record, UKVoting wish to point out that Molly Mockford and David Mahon, both of whom are standing as candidates in the election, took no part this decision. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG-v1.2.4-(GNU/Linux) Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBQXpf4mOfGXkh8vHZAQFAjgQAgqzoF57ZACKMZuHXBi1vpurq9xGocFtE uMMNw9NQ9lRNYA+bpW2ZykhKDiKz3Nay3t4vW9S//o3OX7SOmFqN5Mhh/Fccuqa6 Qzuyf/49SvAPnHsxrnYNjr6BeHXocBxORrLyFgbQuHfdeasSP/WGyCZgYssKinAw p2Gro1qR520= =qMLR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----