Re: GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections Spring 2009 - Preliminary results

[Dave Neary <dneary gnome org>]

Hi,

Stormy Peters wrote:
> I too think the election committee should just decide.
>
> (From board discussions, I'm pretty confident they wanted to do it 
> however Maemo does it, but at this point I think the election committee 
> should decide.)

I'd replace "decide" with "clarify" here - it's clear there was an 
intention, and now we're in something of a niche situation, where we 
just need a clarification from the committee what method they intended 
to use - then we just count with that.

I prefer fractional transfer because its results are deterministic, they 
will not be different if you run the election 10 different times. That 
isn't true of random transfer (which is a real world compromise to make 
hand-counting big elections feasible). But if that's not what the 
election committee intended, then so be it, we'll count it the other 
way, organise a hand check, and be done with it.

Having counted the election by hand yesterday, I can tell you that the 
hand count will come down to a 1 or 2 vote difference between Sri and 
Jorge for the last seat, and Vincent, Behdad, German, Brian and Diego 
will be elected.

Cheers,
Dave.

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Dave Neary
GNOME Foundation member
dneary gnome org