Re: Election results

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?

> > > 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?

Thanks,
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