RationalWiki:2020 board of trustees election/Results

The results were prepared by cosmikdebris on 24 August 2020, who thanks all voting members for their participation and interest in the Foundation.

Since only 4 people stood for 4 positions the election this election is considered pre-determined. However, per the Bylaws, an election was held anyway. After discussion, the mob agreed by consensus that the top three finishers shall be appointed to a full two year term, while the fourth finisher shall be appointed to a one year term to fill the vacancy left by DuceMoosolini's resignation.

The following candidates are elected to a two year term ending in 2022:

The following candidate is elected to a one year term ending in 2021:

Election data
order: "Dysk", "GrammarCommie", "LeftyGreenMario", "RoninMacbeth"

10817 1 3 2 1 4 0 54555 1 3 4 2 1 0 5432 1 1 3 0 1457 1 3 2 1 4 0 55842 1 3 4 0 64884 1 1 3 4 0 31715 1 3 4 2 1 0 61948 1 1 2 4 3 0 54334 1 1 3 2 4 0 53405 1 3 2 4 1 0 70984 1 3 2 4 1 0 6649 1 3 4 2 1 0 59326 1 3 2 1 4 0 62617 1 1 3 4 0 72247 1 3 2 4 0 52766 1 3 1 2 4 0 21567 1 3 4 1 0 59523 1 1 3 0 61570 1 3 4 2 0 16590 1 3 2 4 0 35656 1 3 1 2 4 0 47363 1 3 4 1 2 0

5 4 1 3 2 1 4 0 1 3 4 2 1 0 1 1 3 0 1 3 2 1 4 0 1 3 4 0 1 1 3 4 0 1 3 4 2 1 0 1 1 2 4 3 0 1 1 3 2 4 0 1 3 2 4 1 0 1 3 2 4 1 0 1 3 4 2 1 0 1 3 2 1 4 0 1 1 3 4 0 1 3 2 4 0 1 3 1 2 4 0 1 3 4 1 0 1 1 3 0 1 3 4 2 0 1 3 2 4 0 1 3 1 2 4 0 1 3 4 1 2 0 0 "Dysk" "GrammarCommie" "LeftyGreenMario" "RoninMacbeth" "Other" "RationalMedia Board 2020 Election"

tasha:openstv cosmikdebris$ ./runElection.py MeekSTV rat2020mod.blt > rat2020mod.txt

OpenSTV version 1.7 (http://www.OpenSTV.org/)

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Loading ballots from file rat2020mod.blt. Ballot file contains 5 candidates and 22 ballots. No candidates have withdrawn. Ballot file contains 22 non-empty ballots.

Counting votes for RationalMedia Board 2020 Election using Meek STV. 5 candidates running for 4 seats.

R|Dysk             |GrammarCommie     |LeftyGreenMario   |RoninMacbeth |--+--+--+-- |Other             |Exhausted         |Surplus           |Threshold

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================================================================= 1|         6.000000|          0.000000|         16.000000|          0.000000  |          0.000000|          0.000000|         13.199998|          4.400001  |---  | Count of first choices. Candidates Dysk and LeftyGreenMario have reached | the threshold and are elected.

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================================================================= 2|         5.463336|          5.921655|          4.766683|          5.461657  |                  |          0.386669|          4.322663|          4.322667  |---  | Count after transferring surplus votes. Keep factors of candidates who | have exceeded the threshold: Dysk, 0.733334 and LeftyGreenMario, 0.275001. | Candidates GrammarCommie and RoninMacbeth have reached the threshold and | are elected.

Winners are Dysk, GrammarCommie, LeftyGreenMario, and RoninMacbeth.

Technical notes
Apparently OpenSTV is confused when an election is run with four candidates competing for four open seats. When running in this configuration it only makes one pass and ends the election with only the first two candidates elected. To fix this, we added an additional dummy candidate called "Other," to force OpenSTV to execute a proper run and get the full order of all votes cast.