Re: Election results

On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 02:57:46PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
> Neil McGovern <neilm(at)spi-inc(dot)org> wrote:
> > I've done a few others (Borda, Borda Elimination, Minmax, Nanson, Ranked
> > Pairs, Condorcet (SPI), Condorcet (Debian), Bucklin, IRV, Pluralty) at
> > http://blog.halon.org.uk/geek/spi/2007-election-results-calcs.html
> > for those interested
>
> Thanks. I only did the ones that were obvious/easy how to do
> manually. Could you link the software you used, please?
>

Sure, http://vote.sourceforge.net/

> > > > 95 votes were received.
> > >
> > > Finally, as I understand it, turn-out was 25% of voting members (not
> > > the 25% of SPI members that some press reported). Why was turn-out so
> > > low (at least, I think it's low for a vote-by-mail in this type of
> > > organisation) and what steps will SPI be taking to increase it?
> >
> > A review of who is a contributing member will be underway shortly.
>
> Does that mean you suspect the turn-out was low because there are too
> many voters and SPI will try to remove/reclassify voting members to
> improve the turn-out proportion?
>

Yes, as per the by-law's renewal requirements. This has been mentioned
this month in:
<20070713214308(dot)GB2793(at)techhouse(dot)org>
<Pine(dot)LNX(dot)4(dot)55(dot)0707161607100(dot)5347(at)baffin>
if you need further clarification.

Neil
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Neil McGovern
Secretary, Software in the Public Interest, Inc.