voting for london hackspace trustees elections 2012

voting-2012.txt

grep -iE '(robonaut|jonty|russs)' *-hack-space.12*.log | grep -i votes | grep -i '@russs'

#london-hack-space.12-06.log:10:57 <@russss> 3 votes so far :/
#london-hack-space.12-06.log:10:58 <@russss> we need 183 votes to be quorate. Might be a tough one
#london-hack-space.12-06.log:11:07 <@russss> 16 votes
#london-hack-space.12-06.log:11:42 <@russss> we've got 50 votes now
#london-hack-space.12-06.log:13:04 <@russss> 73 votes
#london-hack-space.12-06.log:16:10 <@russss> 93 votes so far
#london-hack-space.12-06.log:18:16 <@russss> 103 votes
#london-hack-space.12-06.log:18:57 <@russss> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting_Single_Transferable_Votes
#london-hack-space.12-06.log:19:00 <@russss> 108 votes, that's the same as we had in total last time
#london-hack-space.12-08.log:10:56 <@russss> 139 votes
#london-hack-space.12-09.log:11:41 <@russss> yeah I think the quorum for these votes isn't really terribly useful, as long as they get well publicised
#london-hack-space.12-10.log:11:29 <@russss> 152 votes
#london-hack-space.12-11.log:00:45 <@russss> 155 votes so far, 185 is the quorum.
#london-hack-space.12-11.log:12:04 <@russss> 175 votes
#london-hack-space.12-11.log:14:49 <@russss> 183 votes
#london-hack-space.12-12.log:15:18 <@russss> 190 votes
#london-hack-space.12-16.log:22:14 <@russss> 200 votes received
#london-hack-space.12-16.log:22:20 <@russss> The "quota" is 115 votes
#london-hack-space.12-16.log:22:20 <@russss> but those votes can get transferred from eliminated candidates
#london-hack-space.12-16.log:22:49 <@russss> if any single candidate is above the quota they get elected. Then any votes they get above the quota have their second-preferences transferred to the other candidates.
#london-hack-space.12-16.log:22:52 <@russss> Meek STV handles the surplus using fractional votes, so if you're among 50 people voting for a candidate, 41/50th of your second-preference vote will still get transferred to the others.
#london-hack-space.12-17.log:15:57 <@russss> surprisingly good uptake on the third voting reminder - we now have 218 votes