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Behalf Of Steve Repetti
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 11:24 AM
To: open-web...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Official Confirmed OWF Election Results!!!
After reviewing the OWF election data, and confirmation by multiple independent OWF members, the official results are as follow:
Voting Metrics:
Eligible Voting Members: 75
Actual members that voted: 62 total ballots
Percentage voting: 82.67%
Invalid Voter Ids: 2 (used “X-2” prefix from different election)
Invalid Ranking: 7 (typically used duplicate numbers)
Replaced Ballot: 1 (1 member miscast their vote and requested re-vote with first ballot eliminated) [note #1]
Invalidated Ballot: 1 (1 member did not receive their voter id, new one issued, invalidated upon review) [note #2]
Total validated ballots: 51
Percentage valid ballots: 68.00%
Quorum Reached? Yes
*Note #1: One member contacted the election officials and advised that they had cast their vote “backwards”, meaning the person the wanted the most received at 13 and the least a 1. They asked to recast their vote and was advised that this could be accomplished, however their anonymity would be revealed to the Steve Repetti and Elias Bizannes acting on behalf of the election committee. We advised that we would not disclose this information and they agreed to proceed. The member provided us with their voterid and we appended a prefix to it in order to maintain the transactional integrity of the election.
*Note #2: One member contacted election officials and advised that they did not receive their email with the unique voterid. In the interest of caution, we issued a new voterid and allowed the member to cast their ballot. However, upon review, we were concerned that we would be unable to guarantee that the member did not cast more than one vote. While we certainly do not believe this to be the case, we felt the only way we cold provide such guarantee was to invalidate the ballot.
OWF 2009 Board of Directors Elected:
Brady Brim-DeForest
Chris Messina
David Recordon
David Rudin
DeWitt Clinton
Eran Hammer-Lahav
Gabe Wachob
Lawrence Rosen
Tantek Celik
New Members Approved:
Anthony Broad-Crawford
Peter Mika
Danese Cooper
Oshani Seneviratne
And yet, I don’t see you helping… J
EHL
That’s great. You can write it all down and we can use that to explain it to other people…