{"id":1345,"date":"2009-01-13T13:59:41","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T03:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2013-10-04T09:27:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T23:27:00","slug":"history-of-voting-in-linux-australia-council-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/13\/history-of-voting-in-linux-australia-council-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"History of voting in Linux Australia Council elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past few years (since we’ve been using MemberDB<\/a>) total number of members voting has looked like this:<\/p>\n

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Year:Members voted - 2005:57, 2006:110, 2007:63, 2008:65<\/p><\/div>\n

So what does this tell us? Err… Nothing much. Except that we should probably expect about 60-70 votes for this election.<\/p>\n

If we look at how many candidates we’ve had for each position, it looks a little bit more interesting:<\/p>\n

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In this chart I’m using numbers of *candidates*, not nominees. I’m also using numbers that are after we’ve computed the results and already redistributed preferences for existing winners. e.g. if I was standing for President and Vice President and won President, I appear here as a candidate for President and not for VP.<\/p>\n

What can we tell here? We don’t have too much choice for P, VP, S or T…\u00c2\u00a0 In fact, Google Spreadsheet is just drawing it all over each other so you can’t really tell.<\/p>\n

2005 was the last year there was a choice in President. It was also the last year there was a choice for Secretary.<\/p>\n

There was a choice of Treasurer in 2006.<\/p>\n

There has been a choice of Vice President in 2005, 2007 and 2008.<\/p>\n

There has always been a choice for OCM.<\/p>\n

It’d be great if we set a record this year for how many people voted (which for those counting means we need 111 votes).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the past few years (since we’ve been using MemberDB) total number of members voting has looked like this: So what does this tell us? Err… Nothing much. Except that we should probably expect about 60-70 votes for this election. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[624],"class_list":["post-1345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-aus","tag-linux-aus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-lH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1370,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/27\/itwire-linux-australia-election-results-are-in-but-is-there-a-mandate\/","url_meta":{"origin":1345,"position":0},"title":"iTWire – Linux Australia election results are in – but is there a mandate?","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2009-01-27","format":false,"excerpt":"iTWire - Linux Australia election results are in - but is there a mandate? 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