[Elections] Squeak Elections Summary

[Daniel Vainsencher]

To stay for a moment on the technical sides:

Yes, I agree - not bad overall. Many of these problems could have been 
solved, however, by some of the following precautions:

1. Telling people in advance to check that their SqP account is 
certified, has a current email address, and a full name (the last should 
be a requirement to voting).
2. Getting the SqP list from Ken with full names and certifications as 
well as emails. Makes dealing with missing emails more likely.
3. Sending mails to all SqP accounts mentioning the elections - both to 
awaken observers that may have done more since, and to get the bounces 
earlier.

While sending people ballots manually was critical this time, we should 
try to avoid it in general, since malicious voters might use it to vote 
twice.

On other fronts, I was happy we had lots of candidates and less than 
thrilled about the level of conversation that developed between 
candidates and voters. I think that while it isn't our role to guide the 
discussion, we do need to do something to have more meaningful platform 
statements. I think we should probably have this part of the discussion 
on squeak-dev, though.

Daniel Vainsencher

Ron Teitelbaum wrote:
> All,
>
> Here's a quick summary of what happened in our election
>
> Server error
>       1 user reported
>
> Wrong Email in Squeak People
>       5 users 	New email added ballots resent
>
> Ineligible voters requesting ballot
> 	2 users
>        
> Couldn't find Email
> 	3 users    2 resent (1 found by user)
>
> Bounces
> 	12 emails bounced
>
> Issues: 
> 	0-10 emails were not on squeakPeople export
> 	Numbers on front page are wrong
> 	Should be: 
> 	
> 	Observer 96
> 	Apprentice 245
> 	Journeyer 118
> 	Master 34
>
> 	Total 493
>
> I'd say it went pretty well,
>
> Ron Teitelbaum
> Squeak Elections Team Member
>
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