[OOTB-hive] [OOTB-Hive] [ELECTION] Time to Vote!

[Bindu Wavell]

Um, so I don't think I can vote yet, but I just want to say huge THUMBS UP
to the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy example!!!!!

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 8:49 AM Cristina Martín Ruiz <
cristinamartinruiz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I am writing you this email because it's time to vote in The Order Of The
> Bee!
> Boriss is "out of office" during some days, so I will explain you the
> mechanism following his guideline:
> How to vote for the Board elections
>
> Here is a description about how the vote is made for the elections of the
> Board.
>
>    -
>
>    Each vote is composed by a list of 5 candidates ordered by priority.
>    Note that 5 is the size of the board, according to the by-laws.
>    -
>
>    No candidate must be listed twice in a single vote.
>    -
>
>    Omissions are allowed.
>
> Closing the elections
>
> Once the voting period is closed, candidates are sorted by two parameters
> in this order:
>
>    -
>
>    Number of votes
>    -
>
>    Arithmetic mean of priority
>
> The first 5 members are elected as the Board.
> Draws
>
> The only important draw occurs when the Board cannot be determined. For
> instance, when there is a draw between the 5th and the 6th position. In
> such case, a new election needs to be run as tie-break where votes will be
> emitted only for those candidates drawing.
> Example
>
> Here is an example of an election with only 2 votes.
>
> *Vote 1*
>
>    1. Zaphod Beeblebrox
>    2. Arthur Dent
>    3. Trillian
>    4. Ford Prefect
>    5. Marvin
>
> *Vote 2*
>
>    1. Arthur Dent
>    2. Trillian
>    3. Slartibartfast
>    4. Ford Prefect
>    5. Zaphod Beeblebrox
>
> That gives us the following ranking ordered by number of votes, and then
> by average priority:
>
> R = Ranking V = Number of votes P = Arithmetic mean priority
>
> R  V   P   Candidate
> -  -  ---  -------------------
> 1  2  1.5  Arthur Dent
> 2  2  2.5  Trillian
> 3  2  3.0  Zaphod Beeblebrox
> 4  2  4.0  Ford Prefect
> 5  1  3.0  Slartibartfast
> 6  1  5.0  Marvin
>
> Which means that Marvin is out of the Board. He has the same amount of
> votes as Slartibartfast, but Slartibartfast has a better average priority.
> Marvin, the paranoid android, probably does not even care. You know, brain
> the size of a planet and they ask him to be in a Board.
> I will send in a while an email with more information to those members
> that can vote ;-)
>
> Regards!
>
> Cris.
>
> --
> *Cristina Martín Ruiz*
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