Channel Manager Balloting Procedure

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The June 2007 Undernet Callahans Channel Manager election is CLOSED. No new ballots will be accepted.

FINAL RESULTS

ManinBlak: 30 votes cast (28 validated/verified, 2 structurally defective not counted as part of 30)

Da5id: 5 votes cast (5 validated/verified)

An archive of the ballots, including defective and unverified/unvalidated ballots, in UNIX mbox format, is available upon request from FreeTrav.

Problem Ballots

Ballots listed here have not been validated, or are defective and cannot be validated. Defective ballots will not be counted; unvalidated ballots need to be validated with the person casting them appearing in channel. Ballots unvalidated by 8 July 2007 will not be counted in the final results.

Unvalidated ballots:

Giselle

AuntieEm

Linut This ballot has been validated

Bunyip This ballot has been validated

Bearcloud This ballot has been validated

Defective ballots:

These ballots are identified by the email address in the From: line of the ballot, partly obscured to prevent harvesting. If you cast a ballot from an address that matches what you see here, your ballot cannot be counted.

re...n@y...com

lo...t@u...com This ballot has been re-cast and validated

si...6@h...com

This was the procedure for the June 2007 Undernet Callahans Channel Manager election.

1. Two email addresses, callahans.maninblak@freelancetraveller.com and callahans.da5id@freelancetraveller.com, have been created for the voting process.
2. To cast a vote, send email to the address that contains the nick of the candidate you wish to vote for.
3. The email address in either the From: line or the Reply-to: line must be viable - One of the volunteer scrutineers/validators must be able to send a message to that address and it should reach you, without having to jump through challenge/response hoops or prove humanity in some other way. If Reply-to: is set, that email address is the one that must be viable; if the From: is set, but not Reply-to:, THAT email address must be viable.
4. The subject line of the email should contain the string CALLAHANS VOTE: followed by a list of the nicks that you most commonly use in channel. Wildcards are permitted, e.g., CALLAHANS VOTE: FreeTrav FreeTrav-*
5. The body of the message can be whatever you want, but will be meaningless in terms of the vote, except that if there is body text present, the scrutineer/validator may choose to use it in verifying that you actually sent the vote (see next item).
6. A scrutineer/validator will attempt to contact you at a time when both are in-channel (or at least appear to be, using one of the nicks named in the ballot), via /msg. The scrutineer/validator will ask two questions: Whether you submitted a vote, and one other question that s/he believes will, if answered accurately, lend credence to the hypothesis that the vote being examined is in fact yours. Note that the scrutineer/validator will not simply send the questions to /msg and hope you'll reply to them; s/he will only ask the questions "face to face".
7. When the scrutineer/validator is satisfied that the ballot being examined has been matched to a legitimate patron, s/he will Reply to the ballot indicating that the ballot has been verified/validated. If validation of the ballot fails, s/he will Reply to the ballot indicating so. If the ballot is validated, the response will contain the questions asked to validate the ballot, and your responses. If validation fails, the questions will be in the response, but not the answers received. Note that this should not be taken literally; a statement in the validation notice of "You correctly identified Eudora as the mail client program used to prepare the ballot." can (and should) be read as equivalent to "Q: What email client did you use to prepare your ballot? A: Eudora".
8. If you have not received a validation or nonvalidation notice by the weekend of or following the seventh day after you send your ballot, contact FreeTrav in /msg.
9. You may only have one validated/accepted vote on record. Once a vote is accepted as valid, any further votes purporting to be from the same person will be discarded with no attempt at validation. If you receive a non-validation response, and it really was you that cast the ballot, you may cast another ballot, which will need to be validated using the same procedure (but almost certainly a different validation question).
10. The voting period will commence at 00:00 Fri 1 June 2007 EDT, and will end 23:59:59 Sat 30 June 2007 EDT (Timezone selected because it makes it easier to spot early or late votes on FreeTrav's mail client). Ballots that show times earlier that the start date or later than the end date when downloaded into FreeTrav's mail client will be silently discarded as invalid. Don't jump the gun, and don't wait for the last minute.
11. The final tally will be posted on the main Undernet Nominations page as soon as possible after the balloting closes, no later than the second Saturday in July 2007. The total number of ballots cast for each candidate will be posted, followed by the number of VERIFIED/VALIDATED ballots for that candidate in parentheses. After the results are posted, anyone who wishes to run their own tabulation may request the ballots, saved in a unix mbox-formatted file (which will contain the validated/nonvalidated responses as well as the ballot). If someone volunteers to provide hosting space, FreeTrav will be happy to upload the mbox files to that space.

Based on some discussion in-channel that indicated a need for clarity: ONLY VALIDATED VOTES WILL BE CONSIDERED IN DETERMINING THE ACTUAL OUTCOME OF THE VOTE. Also, we have multiple scrutineers/validators; because of this, ballots that do not conform to the above procedure cannot be validated, and will not count.

Volunteer Scrutineers/Validators

The following patrons have volunteered to act as scrutineers/validators in accordance with the above procedure. Scrutineers/Validators MAY NOT validate their own ballot. If you wish to volunteer, contact FreeTrav in-channel; if you're familiar with editing a wiki, you may also add your nick to the list - but contact FreeTrav anyway.

FreeTrav (acting as overall coordinator)

Nanassi

MathBard

iMonkey