Re: Voting irregularities
| From: | Michael Wallner | Date: | Sun, 15 Mar 2015 14:29:28 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Voting irregularities | ||
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> On 15 03 2015, at 15:19, Anthony Ferrara <ircmaxell@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> All,
>
> I ran some numbers on the current votes of the dual-mode vote right
> now. There were a number of voters that I didn't recognize. So I
> decided to pull some stats.
>
> The following voters never voted before the dual-mode RFC went up:
>
> dom - no
> eliw - no
> kguest - yes
> kk - no
> nohn - no
> oliver - yes
> richsage - yes
> sammywg - no
> spriebsch - no
> srain - no
> theseer - no
> zimt - no
>
> Some of these names I recognize from list (sammywg and eliw), but many I do not.
>
> The interesting thing happens when you look at the voting direction.
>
> Currently, the RFC is slightly losing 70:37 (65.4%).
>
> If we look at percentages, 4.2% of yes voters have never voted in a
> prior RFC. But a whopping 24.3% of no voters have never voted before.
>
> If we adjust the votes to remove these "never voted" accounts, it
> stands at 67:28. Which is 70.5%. Which is basically where the vote was
> prior to the competing RFC opening.
>
> I'm not saying that all of these are bad votes. Nor that they
> shouldn't be counted. I think it does raise a significant question
> around the voting practices.
>
> Something that I think we need to discuss as a group.
>
> So consider that discussion open.
Jeez, that is becoming ridiculous. So, if you’re that good in counting, how many did not vote
before STHv0.3?