Re: Disclosing election results -- a voice of caution

On 6/3/2014 10:22 AM, Brian Kardell wrote:
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> On Jun 3, 2014 10:13 AM, "Jeff Jaffe" <jeff@w3.org 
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> >> -  What percentage of members voted?
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> > 98 Members voted which is more than 25% of the Membership. 
> Personally, I am quite pleased that there was this level of interest.  
> While not the 90+% that I would have preferred, the 25% is still 
> larger than some democratic political elections in some locations.  
> They voted for 355 candidates, an average of 3.6 votes per Member.
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> >> -  What percentage of people voted for the maximum number of 
> candidates?
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> > 51 of the 98 voted for 5 candidates.
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> >>   How about only 1 candidate?
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> > 22 of the 98 voted for 1 candidate.
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> This is a great start Jeff, informative.  Is it plausible to gather 
> similar historical information for, say, the last 5 years so we can 
> see trends?
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That sounds like a great deal of work and will not yield a lot of 
information.

Last year's election would provide interesting data.

Most recent previous elections were not contested at all or not greatly 
contested.

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Received on Tuesday, 3 June 2014 14:25:22 UTC