Ask Ubuntu 2013 Moderator Elections

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Seth

3:01 AM

Me Too!

Journeyman Geek

ditto ;p

hmm, shouldn't the number of candidates have been updated to 10?

Manishearth

3:32 AM

@aditya oh, all those resources get linked to in the mod email. :) Namely the cheatsheet, the mod newsletter (moderators.stackexchange.com), and a bit about the TL and the TL bot

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AshRj

5:44 AM

Q: During the election phase, do I need to cast all three votes for my votes to count?

In the currently ongoing elections, do I need to cast all 3 votes for my votes to count, or is casting say, one vote or two votes, also counted ?

@JourneymanGeek @Shog9

Journeyman Geek

5:59 AM

@AshRj: from what I recall you don't need to use all your votes

but that's not an official answer ;p

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Aditya

8:51 AM

@Manishearth Thats good. BTW, what is TL and TL bot?

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Manishearth

11:43 AM

@Aditya Teacher's Lounge (secret mod room). There are some special policies pertaining to that one. There's also a chat bot that has a few useful functions that resides in TL.

Aditya

@Manishearth hmm...

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smartboyhw

2:38 PM

Oh it is already in election phase:P

Strange I just simply voted to the top 3 in Primary:P

Which does make sense

More weirdly, I chose them according to their primary votes order although I didn't know it when voting

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FEichinger

4:12 PM

@JourneymanGeek Well, technically there are 15 candidates. It's just that 5 of those have already been eliminated.

andrewsomething

4:53 PM

Q: Can we link to OpenSTV in the Ubuntu repos on the election page?

The election results tell you that you can use OpenSTV to audit the results and provide links to windows and mac installers. This is Ask Ubuntu. We don't need to download random installers from the web. OpenSTV is available in the Ubuntu archives. I know that this isn't going to come up for a...

feature-request election

^ anyone with a line to the stackexchange folks able to bring this up before the election is over?

Private

5:15 PM

@LuisAlvarado you've got my vote

Luis Alvarado

5:40 PM

@Thank you private for the confidence ^^

Manishearth

5:58 PM

@andrewsomething I have a line to SE folks. But really, they should be patrolling the meta site anyway, 'specially since it's election time. I may ping them later though :)

Or just bug your mods

FEichinger