<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><base href="x-msg://1343/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>I went back and looked at the previous elections. We had about 40 people in the first election. The last election had several dozen who received nominations and 21 who accepted the nomination and stood for election.</div><div><br></div><div>Jonathan</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Oct 15, 2013, at 11:36 AM, Tim Bell <<a href="mailto:Tim.Bell@cern.ch">Tim.Bell@cern.ch</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-GB" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Simon,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Could you clarify whether there is an STV system which does not require ranking all candidates (45 in the last round) and would require at least N votes (to ensure reasonable consideration) but does not require all candidates to be ranked ?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">This would avoid the “bullet vote” mentioned in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline; ">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote</a>, require a reasonable level of education by the electorate (i.e. not just choose the nearest affiliation but also allow a vote to be cast in a reasonable time by ranking your top M candidates where M > N) ?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Tim<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-width: 1.5pt; border-left-color: blue; padding: 0cm 0cm 0cm 4pt; "><div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm; "><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Simon Anderson [mailto:simon@<a href="http://dreamhost.com" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline; ">dreamhost.com</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>15 October 2013 10:16<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:elections-committee@lists.openstack.org" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline; ">elections-committee@lists.openstack.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[Elections-committee] Draft STV Briefing Paper for Committee Review<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">I've attached the draft briefing paper I've prepared summarizing the Single Transferable Vote (STV) system, and its benefits and drawbacks for consideration by the Board at the meeting on October 17.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Look forward to discussing and refining it with you all today, on and after the election committee call.<br clear="all"><o:p></o:p></div><div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><br>Best,<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Simon Anderson<br>CEO, DreamHost<o:p></o:p></div></div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Elections-committee mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Elections-committee@lists.openstack.org" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline; ">Elections-committee@lists.openstack.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/elections-committee" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); 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