<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">All</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">First, let's thank Jeremy Malcolm for the work he did.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Second, let me make a motion to the new steering committee to add Ms. Perini, who clearly has interest and experience.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Lots of work to do.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Dave</div></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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</table><a href="#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2" width="1" height="1"></a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmalcolm@eff.org" target="_blank">jmalcolm@eff.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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The results of the Best Bits steering committee election are in.<br>
<br>
Ballots were sent to the 519 members of this list who have been
members for two months prior to the election, although some of these
bounced. 134 of these members clicked on the invitation email, but
only 63 of them followed through and completed the voting forum by
clicking the submit button on the page. (The former figure might
not be completely accurate, because some corporate email systems
will automatically click on links in email, to check whether they
are phishing or as part of a malware scan. But we can be pretty
confident about the latter figure.)<br>
<br>
Although we had more available positions on the steering committee
than nominees, because of the availability of "no candidate" as an
option, I have applied the criterion that in order to be elected to
the steering committee you must have had more people voting for you
than voting for "no candidate". With 63 votes cast, this means that
the threshold for election was 32 votes. In other words, if 31
people didn't want you on the committee but 32 people did, you would
be elected.<br>
<br>
Of the 63 votes, 15 did not want a steering committee to be elected
at all; in other words they voted "no candidate" for every
position. Of the remaining 48:<br>
<ul>
<li>3 voted for the election of a only single member</li>
<li>4 voted for the election of only two members</li>
<li>4 voted for the election of only three members</li>
<li>12 voted for the election of only four members</li>
<li>7 voted for the election of only five members</li>
<li>18 voted for the election of all six members</li>
</ul>
The precise number of votes received for each candidate was as
follows:<br>
<ul>
<li>Nighat Dad: 38 votes<br>
</li>
<li>Poncelet Ileleji: 38 votes <br>
</li>
<li>Renata Ribeiro: 37 votes</li>
<li>Dave Burstein: 37 votes</li>
<li>Imran Ahmed Shah: 33 votes</li>
<li>Antonella Perini: 31 votes<br>
</li>
</ul>
This means that only one candidate received less than 32 votes, but
only a single vote less, which is virtually a rounding error! So I
feel bad for Antonella Perini and I would like to point out to the
new steering committee that if they would like to co-opt her onto
the committee as an honorary non-voting member, past precedent would
allow them to do this. Also, this would ensure that the steering
committee has a 50/50% equal gender balance, as well as giving
effect to the most popular choice that there should be a steering
committee of six. Nevertheless, I leave this for the new committee
to decide.<br>
<br>
Congratulations to the new elected Best Bits committee members! I
would also like offer my services to the new committee to assist
them with administrative duties, such as maintenance of the website
and mailing list, if required.<br>
<br>
If anyone would like to review the raw data from the polling
software in order to verify the results as I have presented them,
please let me know and I will send it to you as a spreadsheet.<br>
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Jeremy Malcolm
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