Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Audit Subcommittee/October 2009 election

• This election uses secret voting, using SecurePoll.
• Broadly, any registered editor with 150 main space edits prior to 1 October 2009 has franchise; SecurePoll automatically accepts votes from editors meeting this criterion. Editors without franchise are redirected to an explanatory text.
• Voting is either support or oppose. (The default option is neutral, which has no impact on the result.) You may change your votes at any time until the poll closes at 23:59 (UTC) on 8 November 2009. You can confirm whether your vote has been registered by visiting the real time voter log at: Special:SecurePoll/list/60.
• Additionally, alphabetically sorted lists of voters will be posted in the voting log every day or so for community scrutiny. The election administrators and scrutineers know which editors have voted but do not know for whom they have voted. Similarly, the final tally of votes per candidate is anonymised.
• By long tradition, sockpuppets and blocked/banned users are disenfranchised. Concerns should be raised on the voting log talk page. The election administrators will strike the votes of sockpuppet/blocked/banned accounts. A log of editors, if any, whose votes have been stricken will appear in a "Disenfranchised editors" section of the voting log.
• The total numbers of support and oppose votes for each candidate will be collated and published as soon as is practical after the poll closes.
• The appointments will be made no later than 13 November 2009.

The role of the scrutineers is to ensure that the poll is conducted fairly and that the published results accurately reflect the computer-generated data. The scrutineers are all stewards: Erwin, Thogo, Mike.lifeguard, and Mardetanha.

• Applications: 7–22 October

  Candidates self-nominate by email to {{NonSpamEmail|privileges2009|googlemail.com}}. They will receive an application questionnaire which should be completed and returned by email to the Arbitration Committee at the same email address. This should include a nomination statement, to a maximum of 250 words, for inclusion on the nominated candidate's election sub-page.

• Review period by the Arbitration Committee: 22–29 October

  During this period, the Arbitration Committee will review applications, notify the candidates going forward to the election pool, and create candidate sub-pages as necessary. The pages will be transcluded on the eve of the election to the Candidates section below.

• Voting: 00:01 30 October until 23:59 8 November (UTC)

  The election commences, using traditional support/oppose voting, using SecurePoll. Questions may be put to the candidates on their individual sub-pages.

• Appointments by: 13 November

  The results and appointments will be published. The successful candidates will be required to identify to the Wikimedia Foundation prior to receiving the permissions.

:Reproduced from Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/Noticeboard/Archive 5#AUSC election: results and appointments

The final votes for the AUSC Elections - held 00:01 30 October to 23:59 8 November (UTC) - are as follows:

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A total of 370 editors voted, including one banned user whose votes were struck. The tallies above have been certified by email to ArbCom by the scrutineers, who will append their signatures below in due course.

1. Results certified by: Erwin (talk) 09:16, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
2. Results certified by: Mardetanha ^talk 22:45, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
3. Results certified by:  — Mike.lifeguard | ^@en.wb [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee/Noticeboard&diff=325134948&oldid=325127322 22:44, 10 November 2009 (UTC)]
4. Results certified by: --Thogo (Talk) 22:48, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

1. That when appointing the successful candidates, a fourth is nominated as an alternate should any retire prior to the next election.

::With thirteen arbitrators, seven is a majority.

:Support: Carcharoth, Coren, John Vandenberg, FloNight, Newyorkbrad, Risker, Rlevse, Roger Davies, Stephen Bain, Vassyana and Wizardman.

:Oppose: None.

:Abstain: None

:Not voting: Cool Hand Luke, FayssalF.

2. That Dominic, Jredmond and Tznkai be appointed to the Audit Subcommittee and that, because of the close vote, MBisanz be invited to serve as an alternate member.

::With thirteen arbitrators, and three inactive, six is a majority.

:Support: Carcharoth, Coren, FloNight, Newyorkbrad, Risker, Rlevse, Roger Davies.

:Oppose: Stephen Bain, John Vandenberg.

:Abstain: None.

:Not voting: Wizardman.

:Inactive: Cool Hand Luke, FayssalF, Vassyana.

3. That, while noting that seven voting members prevents deadlocks and that the subcommittee will have a majority of directly elected members, the Arbitration Committee recommends that the Audit Subcommittee determine its own procedure with regard to voting rights of alternate members.

::With thirteen arbitrators, and three arbitrators inactive, six is a majority.

:Support: Carcharoth, Coren, FloNight, Newyorkbrad, Rlevse, Roger Davies, Stephen Bain.

:Oppose: None.

:Abstain as AUSC members: John Vandenberg, Risker.

:Not voting: Wizardman.

:Inactive: Cool Hand Luke, FayssalF, Vassyana.

For the Arbitration Committee,  Roger Davies ^talk 21:38, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

::Belated support for items 2 and 3. Newyorkbrad (talk) 21:48, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

:::Votes updated accordingly.  Roger Davies ^talk 22:01, 10 November 2009 (UTC)

:;Archived discussion

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Interested editors are invited to participate in the SecurePoll feedback and workshop. SecurePoll was recently used in the Audit Subcommittee election, and has been proposed for use for the upcoming Arbitration Committee election at this current request for comment (RFC). Your comments, suggestions and observations are welcome.

For the Arbitration Committee,
Dougweller (talk) 09:05, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

2009

Audit Subcommittee 2009

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