Re: [ga] PAB rules v. RROR

["!Dr. Joe Baptista" <baptista@pccf.net>]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:

> >Example - our current chairman.  Your voting booth indicated that Roberto
> >Gato, our current GA chairman, was the last person anyone here wanted as a
> >chair.  We all know he's an IBM appointed wall flower.

thats gato for cat.  now I must appoligize - was it the voting boot or the
nominations process?  Old age ;-)

Regards
Joe

> 
> If you can't spell "Gaetano", that might be true.....nobody voted for "Gato".
> there were 2 polls, one with 3 candidates (vote for one) and one with 6 
> candidates (approve or disapprove of each).
> 
> The first one gave Roberto 3 votes, me 2 votes, Mark 2 votes. 7 in all.
> 
> The second one gave Mark Langston 6 "no opinion", me 3 "no opinion" and 3 
> "approve", Roberto the same, Joe Baptista 2 "disapprove" and 4 "no opinion",
> Jeff Williams 3 "disapprove" and 3 "no opinion", Hans Klein 1 "approve" and 
> 1 "no opinion", Peter Dengate-Thrush 2 "approve" and 4 "no opinion".
> 
> The results seem to show both a very low turnout and Roberto as the winner.
> 
> All results taken from
> http://www.democracy.org.nz/vote1/cfm/results.cfm?TID=154
> http://www.democracy.org.nz/vote1/cfm/results2.cfm?TID=155
> 
> 
>                                 Harald
> 
> "pair of facts beats house of supposition"
> --
> Harald Tveit Alvestrand, EDB Maxware, Norway
> Harald.Alvestrand@edb.maxware.no
>