The 2012 election for the LOPSA Board of Directors has concluded. The following candidates are elected to a two-year term: Matt Disney, John Boris, Evan Pettrey, Martin Gehrke
Our thanks to all of the candidates who set aside time and energy to run, and we want to take this moment to congratulate our new Board members. We would also like to thank LOPSA member Matt Okeson-Harlow for the election infrastructure. As well, we would like to thank all of the LOPSA members who took time out of their schedule to vote in this election. LOPSA as an organization is dedicated to transparency in all matters of the organization. Per Bylaws and custom, the raw vote file and instructions for reproducing the results are always published with the official announcement. Due to the withdrawal of one candidate, we are adding specific notes on how this situation was handled for this election. Below are: 1) Notes on the election 2) Reproducing the results 3) the raw vote file The LOPSA Leadership Committee ======= 1 Notes on the Election =========== Withdrawal of Candidate after pools opened: ------------------------ One candidate (Kent Brodie) withdrew (via email to the Leadership Committee) on the last day of the election about 12 hours before the closing of the polls. The Bylaws are silent on this situation, so the Leadership Committee determined that we should f*ollow the regular election process* to the end, and then eliminate this candidate from the election results, promoting the 5th place candidate if necessary. The election results before removing Kent are as follows (not in order of election) : Matt Disney, Kent Brodie, John Boris, and Evan Pettre. See Note (2) below. Removing Kent Brodie from the results promotes Martin Gehrke as the 4th Board member to be elected. Announcement of Official Election Results: ------------------------- There was a process failure at the Leadership Committee: there should have been an email to Members shortly after the polls closed that (re)announced the schedule for official publication of the results. This email was NOT sent. Additionally, the schedule for announcement of official results should have been part of the written and published election calendar. Both issues have been addressed for future elections. ======= 2 Reproducing the raw results ========= You can use any version of OpenSTV (or its predecessor pSTV) to reproduce these results. To provide a text output, a Linux command line version of the software was chosen. These results were run on Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS $ cat /etc/issue Ubuntu 12.04 LTS \n \l Download votes file (see below) as LOPSAElection2012.blt The file suffix is important. Install OpenSTV version 1.6.1 $ sudo apt-get install openstv Run the software: $ openstv-run-election -r TextReport MeekSTV LOPSAElection2012.blt OpenSTV version 1.6.1 (http://www.OpenSTV.org/) Suggested donation for using OpenSTV for an election is $50. Please go to http://www.OpenSTV.org/donate to donate via PayPal, Google Checkout, or Amazon Payments. Certified election reports are also available. Please go to http://www.openstv.org/certified-reports for more information. Loading ballots from file LOPSAElection2012.blt. Ballot file contains 5 candidates and 126 ballots. No candidates have withdrawn. Ballot file contains 126 non-empty ballots. Counting votes for LOPSA Vote 2012 using Meek STV. 5 candidates running for 4 seats. R|Matt Disney |Kent Brodie |John Boris |Evan Pettrey |------------------+---------- --------+------------------+------------------ |Martin Gehrke |Exhausted |Surplus |Threshold ============================================================================== 1| 69.000000| 10.000000| 11.000000| 22.000000 | 14.000000| 0.000000| 43.799999| 25.200001 |--------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Count of first choices. Candidate Matt Disney has reached the threshold | and is elected. ============================================================================== 2| 25.200042| 22.695640| 24.965204| 32.156512 | 18.443474| 2.539128| 8.245233| 24.692175 |--------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Count after transferring surplus votes. Keep factors of candidates who | have exceeded the threshold: Matt Disney, 0.365218. Candidates John Boris | and Evan Pettrey have reached the threshold and are elected. ============================================================================== 3| 25.057315| 24.361792| 27.573584| 24.869496 | 21.399074| 2.738739| 3.543636| 24.652253 |--------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Count after transferring surplus votes. Keep factors of candidates who | have exceeded the threshold: Matt Disney, 0.357858; John Boris, 0.989064; | and Evan Pettrey, 0.767875. ============================================================================== 4| 24.973038| 25.278126| 24.842405| 25.554694 | 22.380296| 2.971441| 2.225415| 24.605712 |--------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Count after transferring surplus votes. Keep factors of candidates who | have exceeded the threshold: Matt Disney, 0.352074; John Boris, 0.884276; | and Evan Pettrey, 0.761168. Candidate Kent Brodie has reached the | threshold and is elected. Winners are Matt Disney, Kent Brodie, John Boris, and Evan Pettrey. ======= 3 the raw vote file ================ $ cat LOPSAElection2012.blt 5 4 1 3 1 2 4 0 1 4 3 1 5 2 0 1 5 4 3 1 2 0 1 5 3 1 4 2 0 1 1 2 5 3 4 0 1 1 3 2 4 5 0 1 1 2 5 4 3 0 1 1 3 4 5 2 0 1 1 4 2 3 5 0 1 1 4 3 2 5 0 1 3 1 5 0 1 3 4 1 5 2 0 1 1 4 0 1 1 3 4 5 2 0 1 1 4 3 5 2 0 1 4 3 1 5 2 0 1 5 1 4 3 2 0 1 1 5 4 3 2 0 1 1 2 3 4 5 0 1 1 5 4 3 2 0 1 1 2 4 3 5 0 1 4 3 2 0 1 5 1 4 2 3 0 1 5 3 2 4 1 0 1 1 5 2 4 0 1 4 1 5 2 3 0 1 1 3 4 2 5 0 1 1 4 2 5 3 0 1 4 5 3 2 1 0 1 2 4 5 1 3 0 1 3 4 1 5 2 0 1 1 4 5 2 3 0 1 5 4 1 2 3 0 1 4 2 5 1 3 0 1 1 2 4 5 3 0 1 1 2 4 5 0 1 1 2 4 3 5 0 1 4 3 1 5 2 0 1 1 0 1 1 2 5 4 3 0 1 1 0 1 1 3 4 5 2 0 1 1 2 5 4 0 1 1 3 2 5 4 0 1 1 4 3 5 2 0 1 1 2 5 3 4 0 1 4 3 5 1 2 0 1 4 5 2 1 3 0 1 3 2 1 4 5 0 1 1 3 5 0 1 1 5 2 4 3 0 1 1 2 3 4 5 0 1 1 4 2 5 3 0 1 1 0 1 2 3 4 1 5 0 1 3 1 4 5 2 0 1 4 1 2 5 3 0 1 3 1 2 4 5 0 1 2 0 1 1 2 4 3 5 0 1 1 3 2 5 4 0 1 1 3 4 5 2 0 1 1 4 5 3 2 0 1 1 2 4 5 3 0 1 1 5 4 3 2 0 1 1 4 5 2 3 0 1 4 1 5 3 2 0 1 1 3 2 4 0 1 2 1 4 3 5 0 1 4 2 5 0 1 4 5 1 3 2 0 1 3 1 4 2 5 0 1 1 4 3 5 2 0 1 2 5 4 3 1 0 1 1 2 4 3 5 0 1 2 1 4 3 5 0 1 1 5 4 2 3 0 1 1 2 4 5 3 0 1 1 2 4 5 3 0 1 1 3 5 4 2 0 1 1 2 5 4 3 0 1 5 4 3 1 2 0 1 1 5 4 2 3 0 1 1 3 4 2 5 0 1 5 2 4 0 1 1 4 5 3 2 0 1 1 4 5 2 0 1 1 2 5 3 4 0 1 1 3 0 1 5 0 1 1 3 4 2 5 0 1 1 3 5 2 4 0 1 1 3 0 1 1 3 4 5 2 0 1 1 3 4 5 2 0 1 4 5 1 2 3 0 1 1 3 2 4 5 0 1 5 1 4 2 3 0 1 1 4 2 5 3 0 1 5 1 4 2 3 0 1 2 1 0 1 4 3 5 1 2 0 1 1 0 1 2 5 4 0 1 4 5 3 0 1 1 4 3 2 5 0 1 4 5 3 1 2 0 1 5 2 4 1 3 0 1 4 2 1 5 3 0 1 3 1 0 1 1 3 5 4 2 0 1 3 1 4 5 2 0 1 1 3 5 4 2 0 1 4 1 3 2 5 0 1 2 3 1 5 4 0 1 1 2 5 4 3 0 1 4 3 5 1 2 0 1 4 5 1 3 2 0 1 5 2 4 1 3 0 1 1 2 4 3 5 0 1 3 5 1 2 4 0 1 2 1 5 3 4 0 1 4 3 1 2 5 0 1 1 4 5 2 3 0 1 1 3 4 2 5 0 1 5 3 4 1 2 0 0 "Matt Disney" "Kent Brodie" "John Boris" "Evan Pettrey" "Martin Gehrke" "LOPSA Vote 2012"
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