[Tugindia] Fwd: TUG 2015 election results

[Manjusha Joshi]

On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Radhakrishnan CV <cvr at river-valley.org>
wrote:

> From: TeX Users Group <tug-news at tug.org>
> Date: Sun, May 24, 2015 at 4:19 AM
> Subject: TUG 2015 election results
> To: all-tug-members at tug.org
>
>
> Greetings TUG members -
>
> The deadline has come, the ballots have been counted,
> and the results are in.
>
> Kaveh Bazargan has been elected president for the term that
> ends with the 2017 annual meeting.
>
> The folowing votes were counted:
>   Kaveh Bazargan, 307
>   Jim Hefferon, 110
> Both candidates made a good showing, although the total
> number of voters was only about a third of those eligible.
>
> As of the ballot closing date (May 11), 145 paper votes
> and 291 electronic valid ballots were received.
> Of the 291 electronic votes, 9 were repeats of the same vote.
> One member voted (differently) by paper after voting
> electronically, so the electronic vote was excluded
> from the result.
>
> The electronic votes were processed by a shell script.
> Handling the paper votes and matching these up
> with electronic votes was time-consuming and expensive.
> We suggest that the electronic voting may be strongly
> encouraged in the future, while paper ballots could be
> sent by request.  We will make specific recommendations
> to the election procedures in due course.
>
> This is the first contested election since 2005.
> Thanks to everyone for their participation.
>
> Kaja Podlaska Christiansen and Karl Berry
> for the Elections Committee
>
> (This note also posted at http://tug.org/election)
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Congratulations Kaveh!!!

-- 
Manjusha S. Joshi

Pune, India
blog:http://manjushajoshi.wordpress.com/