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Subject: Re: Some Requested CCC Election Statistics...

Author: Alvaro Polo

Date: 11:35:45 02/03/00

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On February 03, 2000 at 14:28:50, Chessfun wrote:

>On February 03, 2000 at 13:59:39, Steven Schwartz wrote:
>
>>Chessfun had asked for a couple of CCC Election statistics...
>>
>>Here is some data from the last three elections with partial
>>data from the current election:
>>
>>Election #1    (06/01/98)        - 190 voters
>>Election #2    (12/30/98)        - 209 voters
>>Election #3    (06/23/99)        - 281 voters
>>Election #4 (ending 02/07/00)    - 196 voters (through 02/03 at noon)
>>
>>Apologies to our overseas members who juxtapose the day and month
>>(or maybe it is *us* who do the juxtaposing).
>>
>>We have over 9600 registered members (WITHOUT duplicates and aliases).
>>
>>We have had 2725 DIFFERENT members visit CCC in the last 6 months.
>>
>>The number of votes displayed on the election form is just that...the
>>number of votes, not the number of voters.
>>
>>My guess is that 10% of "Active" members tend to vote.
>>
>>A further guess is that a DIFFERENT 10% tend to complain publicly
>>about the moderators' decisions:-))
>>
>>Steve (ICD/Your Move)
>
>
>Steve,
>     Since the number of actual voters is so low cannot
>those voters IP's be checked to make sure everyone only
>votes once.
>Thanks.

They probably check the IP and perhaps also some cookies. Are you really worried
that the results can be falsified? I know that Unruh has posted some nasty
things about vote stuffing, but I wouldn't take this seriously.

Alvaro



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