2011 Election Results

Reformatted from the post to http://lopsa.org/node/1785:

The election for the 2011-2012 LOPSA Board of Directors has concluded.

The following candidates are elected to two year (transitional) terms:
William Bilancio, Chris 'Ski' Kacoroski, Jesse Trucks, Philip Kizer, Dan Rich

The following candidates are elected to one year terms:
Matt Disney, Nadine Miller, Lois Bennett, Chris St. Pierre

Our thanks to all the candidates who set aside time and energy to run,
and congratulations to our new Board members.

We would also like to thank Matt Okeson-Harlow for the election
infrastructure, Andrew Hume for acting as the independent monitor, and
all the LOPSA members that voted.  This election had one of our
highest turnouts to date.

We present below the report of the independent monitor, Andrew Hume.

The Leadership Committee

Tabulation

Software

OpenSTV v1.6.1 from Sourceforge.

Election title

LOPSA Vote 2011

Method

Meek STV with Droop-Dynamic-Fractional threshold

Number of total ballots

133

Number of invalid or empty ballots

0

Number of ballots used in the count

133

14 candidate running for 9 seats.

Round 1:	Candidates William Bilancio, Chris 'Ski' Kacoroski, and Jesse Trucks elected.
Round 2:	Candidate Philip Kizer elected.
Round 3:	Candidates Dan Rich elected.
Round 4-6:	Transferring surplus votes.
Rounds 7:	Candidate Matt Disney elected.
Round 8-10:	Transferring surplus votes.
Round 11:	Candidates Nadine Miller and Lois Bennett elected.
Round 12:	Candidate elected. The election is over since all seats are filled.

Winners are Chris 'Ski' Kacoroski, Dan Rich, David Parter, Derek Balling, Jesse Trucks, Lois Bennett, Philip Kizer, Travis Campbell, and Trey Harris.

Method of tabulation

To understand the above results, please see:

• Wikipedia: single transferable vote preferential system
• The explanation from the 2005 Election Results

Ballots

The ballots are available for public examination in the standard BLT format of the Electoral Reform Society.

The data is: