Re: GNOME Foundation Board Elections Spring 2012 - Preliminary Results

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

Hey Andrea,

On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 14:30 +0200, Andrea Veri wrote:
> Dear Foundation Members,
> 
> the GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee is pleased to
> announce the preliminary results for the Board of Directors.
> 
> We strongly encourage everyone to look at the detailed results to 
> verify their ballot. (see below)
> 
> These results can be challenged by sending an e-mail to
> elections gnome org. The challenges have to be sent before Tuesday,
> 2012-06-19, 23:59 UTC. Please note these results should not be
> considered final until any challenge have been resolved.
> 
> The results can be found at:
> http://vote.gnome.org/vote/results.php?election_id=17
> 
> A list of all votes can be found at:
> http://vote.gnome.org/vote/votes.php?election_id=17
> 
> If the results are not challenged, the new Board will be composed by:
> 
>       Bastien Nocera
>       Emmanuele Bassi
>       Andreas Nilsson
>       Joanmarie Diggs
>       Tobias Mueller
>       Shaun McCance
>       Seif Lotfy
> 
> Some figures about the votes: there were 375 registered voters. 186
> voters sent valid ballots.


First, congratulations to all the new Board members, and many thanks to
all the candidates that didn't make the cut.

Reading the results[1], I saw in round 3:
"Candidate Bastien Nocera was chosen by breaking the tie randomly."

How was this done randomly? What would the results have been if
Emmanuele was selected as the tie-breaker instead?

Cheers

[1]: http://vote.gnome.org/results.php?election_id=17