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

Author: Chessfun

Date: 11:49:36 02/03/00

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On February 03, 2000 at 14:35:45, Alvaro Polo wrote:

>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


Not worried, just seem to me an easy thing to check.
We know vote stuffing was tried here in the past.
Thanks.




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