[maemo-community] Provisional Maemo Community Council referenda results are in!

[From: Dave Neary]

Hi all,

Here are the provisional results of the three referenda we ran over the
past week on the voting procedures for Maemo Community Council
elections. Unless there are any challenges to these results during the
next 7 days, these results will be official and final at midnight UTC
next Monday, March 2nd.

1. Which of the following criteria do you want applied to the Maemo
Community Council elections to be held in March 2009?

* 25 karma and 3 month old account (status quo) (71 votes)
* No karma requirement, anyone with an account for more than 3 months
may vote (64 votes)
* None of the above (4 votes)

139 votes were cast of an electorate of 601 (23%).

We will maintain a 25 karma requirement for the next elections.

2. Which of the following criteria do you want applied to future Maemo
Community Council elections?

* 10 karma and 3 month old account (48 votes)
* 25 karma and 3 month old account (status quo) (46 votes)
* 10 karma *or* 12 month old account (22 votes)
* No karma or account age requirement - everyone with a maemo.org
account may vote (13 votes)
* None of the above (0 votes)

129 votes cast of an electorate of 601 (21.5%).

For future elections, voters must have a karma of 10, and have created
their maemo.org account more than 3 months before the closing date of
the election.

3. Which of the following voting systems do you want used for Maemo
Community Council elections?

A single transferable vote preferential system (60 votes)
No change - single vote, with top 5 candidates elected (51 votes)
A reweighted range voting system (score candidates between 0 and 100)
(13 votes)
None of the above (3 votes)

127 votes cast of an electorate of 601 (21%).

Future elections, including the election to be held in a few weeks, will
be by preferential vote, and will be counted using the Single
Transferrable Vote system.

Thank you all for voting,

Regards,
Dave Neary.

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