BORG2 Elections NOW OPEN

Frank Jones · Post by **Frank Jones** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 11:13 am

Short answer: registered voters go to

http://www.aumond.com/confirm.html

Long answer: see thread entitled "BORG2 BULLHORN BUNKER"

sparkletarte · Post by **sparkletarte** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 6:05 pm

Short answer

What a concept. Thank you.

blyslv · Post by **blyslv** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:06 am

Funny I woke uip this morning with a strong hankering to give my personal identity information to complete strangers, and now this.

Thank Larry! The Playa Provides!

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:37 am

So when does Trey become Mayor?

Tancorix · Post by **Tancorix** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:49 am

8:30 am election results as e-mailed to anyone eligible to vote:

GUEST CURATOR (vote for one)

Candidate Votes
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Madagascar Institute 101
Death Guild / Thunderdome 83
Draka Arts / Sisterhood of Burning Bush 63
Mobilization / F-Space 13

ART COUNCIL, NATIONAL (vote for three)

Candidate Votes
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Lady Merv 182
Nat the Bat 134
Zachary Coffin 126
Peter Durand 119

ART COUNCIL, LOCAL (vote for six)
Candidate Votes
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Charles Gadeken 172
The Network Girl 160
Michael Michael 151
Ben Burke 115
Rachel 94
GXAOUI 92
Nesdon Booth 92
Harriet 84
Angela 74
Dale Scott 58
Meredith 40
Trey 31
Carl K 18

Sorry, but barrind drastic unforseen events Trey has about the same chances of being elected as a snowball in hell. A very small snowball.

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:57 am

oh.........

um,

bummer.

Tancorix · Post by **Tancorix** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 10:03 am

One very good thing about the elections: The voting system was very easy to use. Whomever picked that company / system to use made a fine choice.

DVD Burner · Post by **DVD Burner** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 10:09 am

I think I may have heard at the Odeon or somewhere that they do thier own programming.

But I heard that through someone through someone through someone.

You did'nt hear it through me though.

geekster · Post by **geekster** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 10:11 am

Thank Dr. Fiasco from the BORG2 tribe on tribe.net

Yes, it is a very good job.

dragonfly Jafe · Post by **dragonfly Jafe** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 2:15 pm

Tancorix wrote:One very good thing about the elections: The voting system was very easy to use. Whomever picked that company / system to use made a fine choice.

Agreed! I failed to properly register, and hence cannot vote. But, the Admin folks behind the voting have already sent a volley of messages my way trying to help me out - a fantastic resonse! Ultimately it came to nought, but it impressed the hell out of me!

BORG1 could learn from BORG2 in that respect, at the very least...

jimmason · Post by **jimmason** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 7:02 pm

thank you for that dragonfly. many people have worked very hard on teh tech, voting logistics, privacy vs verification, admin response, and policies for how to consistently deal with the ambiguities that were sure to arise in the voting.

i don't know what happened in your case, as i was asleep all day with the flu, but glad you found the response reasonable. we have been trying really hard to make this clean and beyond reproach. it is critical that the resullts are seen as real and the process is one that might suggest uses for certain aspects of general bman decision making.

it is an experiment that hopefully proves to be a demonstration project for how this could actually work on a larger scale.

the responses on all fronts have been extremely positive. people seem to like to participate in deciding the future of their burning man destiny.

sorry whatever happened prevented you from voting. but there will be others later this year i'm sure, but the art council will now decide that.

j

dragonfly Jafe · Post by **dragonfly Jafe** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 3:42 pm

not to worry - an eleventh hour extra effort from your tech team got me in...the energy and enthusiasm from the people of BORG2 is infectious...I am really looking forward to seeing what develops from all this!