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Voting Results Overview
SBAY.ORG Directors for 2005 and 2005-2006 Terms

12 votes were tallied.
Choice Abbrev Description
#1 DIRECTOR-MACLURE Ian MacLure
#2 DIRECTOR-WARD Bill Ward
#3 DIRECTOR-ROCHA Justin Rocha
#4 DIRECTOR-DELANEY John Delaney

The following options did not rank in the results:
Abbrev Description
DIRECTOR-NONE None of these

Description of Voting Topic

Please list your preference votes for the office of Director of sbay.org.
Voting was open from noon Friday, November 19, 2004 to noon Monday, November 22 (US Pacific Time).

Four seats are available in the vote.

The top two candidates will serve for a two-year term and be up for re-election in November 2006. The next two candidates will serve for a one-year term and be up for re-election in November 2005.

The Board of Directors consists of the officers (President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer), four elected Directors (the subject of this vote) and the Immediate Past President.

This is a summary of the role of the Board of Directors:

See the candidate infopage for more details.

Detailed Results

This vote uses a Single Transferable Voting (STV) system, which is a simple form of "preference voting", so that voters can cast first, second, third, and more preferences for their vote. If a majority can't be reached, the last choice is eliminated and the count starts over looking for the highest preference. More information on STV and other voting systems can be found at

Single Transferable Vote (Wikipedia)
Single Transferable Vote (Google Directory)
Elections: Results and Voting systems (UK)
a student's STV page (Finland)

The following tables show in detail how the results were obtained. Each of the "rounds" shown were separate passes through the data by the vote-counting software. Multiple passes are necessary to count an STV-style vote.

Round #1
12.000 valid votes, 2.400 required to win
Selection Votes Percent Notes
DIRECTOR-MACLURE 5.000 41.67% winner for Choice #1 (48.000% of each vote used, 52.000% transfers)
DIRECTOR-WARD 3.000 25.00%  
DIRECTOR-ROCHA 3.000 25.00%  
DIRECTOR-DELANEY 1.000 8.33%  
DIRECTOR-NONE 0.000 0.00%  

Round #2
9.600 valid votes, 1.920 required to win
Selection Votes Percent Notes
DIRECTOR-WARD 4.560 47.50% winner for Choice #2 (42.105% of each vote used, 57.895% transfers)
DIRECTOR-ROCHA 4.040 42.08%  
DIRECTOR-DELANEY 1.000 10.42%  
DIRECTOR-NONE 0.000 0.00%  

Round #3
7.379 valid votes, 1.476 required to win
Selection Votes Percent Notes
DIRECTOR-ROCHA 5.499 74.52% winner for Choice #3 (26.838% of each vote used, 73.162% transfers)
DIRECTOR-DELANEY 1.880 25.48%  
DIRECTOR-NONE 0.000 0.00%  

Round #4
4.166 valid votes, 0.833 required to win
Selection Votes Percent Notes
DIRECTOR-DELANEY 4.166 100.00% winner for Choice #4 (20.000% of each vote used, 80.000% transfers)
DIRECTOR-NONE 0.000 0.00%