RationalWiki:2017 board of trustees election/Results

TLDR
The new 2017-18 RMF board members are and . Please spam them with messages of hate and despair.

Congrats to the winners and thanks to everyone who ran!

Results provided by. I'll happily answer questions, provide the relevant software/data, and take blame.

.blt file
4 2 1 3 2 1 4 0 1 2 3 1 4 0 1 2 3 1 4 0 1 1 2 3 4 0 1 4 1 3 2 0 1 2 1 3 4 0 1 2 3 1 4 0 1 2 1 0 1 1 0 1 2 3 1 4 0 1 1 3 2 0 1 3 1 2 4 0 1 2 3 1 4 0 1 1 4 0 1 2 1 4 0 1 2 0 1 3 2 0 1 1 2 4 3 0 1 3 1 2 4 0 1 2 4 1 3 0 1 2 3 1 0 1 3 2 4 1 0 1 1 3 2 4 0 1 2 1 3 4 0 1 2 3 1 4 0 1 2 3 4 1 0 1 1 4 2 3 0 1 2 3 1 4 0 1 2 3 1 0 1 1 3 2 4 0 1 2 3 0 1 3 2 1 0 1 2 3 1 4 0 1 2 4 1 3 0 1 2 3 1 4 0 0 "Spud" "Human" "Ikanreed" "Colonel Sanders" "RMF Board Election 2017"

Commandline (Windows)
cd "C:\...\OpenSTV\openstv-frozen\openstv" runElection.py MeekSTV "C:\...\regex.blt"

Replace ... with the relevant file locations.

Printout
Loading ballots from file Board2017-regex.blt. Ballot file contains 4 candidates and 35 ballots. No candidates have withdrawn. Ballot file contains 35 non-empty ballots.

Counting votes for RMF Board Election 2017 using Meek STV. 4 candidates running for 2 seats.

R|Spud     |Human     |Ikanreed  |Colonel Sa|Exhausted |Surplus   |Threshold |         |          |          |nders     |          |          |

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================================================================== 1| 8.000000| 20.000000|  6.000000|  1.000000|  0.000000|  8.333333| 11.666667  |  | Count of first choices. Candidate Human has reached the threshold and is | elected.

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================================================================== 2| 9.666664| 11.666680| 11.416658|  1.833332|  0.416666|  0.138901| 11.527779  |  | Count after transferring surplus votes. Keep factors of candidates who have | exceeded the threshold: Human, 0.583334.

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================================================================== 3| 11.499996| 11.666680| 11.416658|         |  0.416666|  0.138901| 11.527779  |  | Count after eliminating Colonel Sanders and transferring votes. All losing | candidates are eliminated.

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================================================================== 4| 11.541666| 11.527780| 11.506943|         |  0.423611|  0.018518| 11.525464  |  | Count after transferring surplus votes. Keep factors of candidates who have | exceeded the threshold: Human, 0.576389. Candidate Spud has reached the | threshold and is elected.

Winners are Spud and Human.

Discussion
Here may's't thou rant and rave about the election results. 19:10, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
 * ikanreed didn't win? Rigged! In all seriousness, congrats to Human and Spud! RoninMacbeth (talk) 02:40, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
 * If I'd been here long enough to vote in this, I would've reelected them. —вιgℓʝвιgℓ (ᴛᴀʟᴋ/sᴛᴀʟᴋ) 23:59, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I am not overworried about not having extra work to do. The board will do just fine.  Until fuzzy gets busy with life stuff someday and then no one does all the heavy lifting of organizing everything.  ikanreed 🐐Bleat at me 14:41, 5 September 2017 (UTC)