AW: [governance] IGC coordinator election results

Sun Oct 10 04:23:36 EDT 2010

Congratulations Izumi. Wish you all the best in these stormy times. 

Wolfgang 

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Von: Jeremy Malcolm [mailto:jeremy at ciroap.org]
Gesendet: So 10.10.2010 06:19
An: governance at lists.cpsr.org
Betreff: [governance] IGC coordinator election results

I am pleased to announce the results of the 2010 IGF coordinator elections.  All candidates polled respectably, indicating that they were all well-qualified nominees for the post.  However, we have a clear winner.  Congratulations and welcome to my new colleague, Izumi Aizu.

There were 107 attempts to vote, of which 103 were valid responses.  The invalid responses were two respondents who commenced the survey but did not answer compulsory questions (one "Are you a member of the IGC" and the other, having answered that "Yes", not answering "Have you already voted"), another respondent who abandoned the survey before voting for a coordinator and tried again later successfully, and one who attempted to vote for coordinator twice.

Of the 103 valid responses, 101 were from self-identified IGC members, 95 of whom claimed not to have voted already.  Four of these remaining qualified voters did not choose to vote for a coordinator.  Of the remaining 91 votes cast, Izumi received 52.  Thanks also to Rafik who received 13 votes and Marilia who received 26.

The public statistics for the poll, and a spreadsheet with the results of the election are both available at http://www.igcaucus.org/node/38.  A photo of the new coordinators is available at http://www.igcaucus.org/node/17.

I will write separately about the charter vote and the nominations committee.

Here are some questions you may have about the results (though I can't really call them "frequently asked"):

Q: Why do the public statistics show 100 (not 103) responses?

A: Because by design of the software, these statistics exclude "incomplete" responses.  Of the four respondents who did not choose a coordinator, one just skipped that question, whereas the others quit the survey in progress.  The former's response is included in the public statistics, and the others are not.

Q. Why do the public statistics show 98 (not 101) voters asserting membership of the IGC?

A. See the answer to the previous question.

Q: Why do the public statistics show 92 (not 95) persons claiming not to have already voted?

A: See the answer to the previous question.

Q. Why do there appear to be some votes missing from the CSV file (based on the consecutive numbering)?

A. The missing ones at the beginning where from testing by me and Ginger.  There are a small number of missing votes where I deleted them because the person mistakenly claimed to have voted already (see below).

Q. Why do three people appear to have voted twice?

A. One of these people mistakenly answered that he had voted already.  I told him to vote again using the token sent to his other email address.  Another gave up before getting to the coordinator vote, then started again; her first response was treated as invalid.  The third does appear to be a double vote; in this case, the first response has been treated as invalid and the second, more complete response taken as definitive.  It is not counted in the public statistics, but is retained in the spreadsheet of results.

Q. Why did some people say that they had already voted, when they hadn't?

A. I don't know, maybe they didn't read the question carefully enough?  Anyone who contacted me to ask for the opportunity to re-cast their vote, was able to do so.  A few, unfortunately, didn't contact me, and missed out on the opportunity to vote...

Q. How did one person vote anonymously?

A. It was not really anonymous, they just didn't provide their name.  Their email address is news [at] chania.di.uoa.gr <http://chania.di.uoa.gr/> .  Anyway, theirs was one of the invalid responses that was not counted, as they did not answer a compulsory question.

Q. What is the difference between "No", "None" and "N/A"?

A. "No" means you were asked a Yes/No question and chose the latter.  "None", for the coordinator vote, means you were qualified to vote and chose to support none of the candidates.  "N/A" means either you were not qualified to vote, or you didn't answer that question.

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