Subj : FidoNews 36:12 [01/07]: Ftsc Information To : All From : FidoNews Robot Date : Mon Mar 25 2019 00:13:25 ================================================================= FTSC INFORMATION ================================================================= Election results The period for contesting ballots expired on 10 March 2019 at 20:00 UTC; no challenges were received. Therefore, the results of the election are as follows: ---------------------------------------------- | Name | Node nr | Yes| No | |----------------------|-------------|----|----| | | | | | | Carol Shenkenberger | 1:275/100 | 14 | 2 | | Andrew Leary | 1:320/219 | 15 | | | mark lewis | 1:3634/12 | 13 | 2 | | Richard Menedetter | 2:310/31 | 16 | | | Ozz Nixon | 1:275/362 | 15 | 1 | | Nick Andre | 1:229/426 | 14 | 2 | ---------------------------------------------- RCs Casting Ballots ------------------- RC33 RC25 RC17 RC24 RC50 RC29 RC19 RC40 RC14 RC41 RC16 RC31 RC13 RC10 RC20 RC54 RC18 Ballots Rejected/Reason ----------------------- Ozz Nixon - Not an RC/eligible voter RC57 - Received after polls closed Of the 32 eligible voters, 17 cast ballots during the voting period. 2 ballots were rejected, 1 because the submitter was not an eligible voter, and the other because it was received after the polls closed. 14 RCs did not vote. All candidates received more Yes votes than No votes and therefore are accepted into the FTSC. Their terms expire on 10 March 2021. Regards, Andrew FTSC Election Coordinator ----------------------------------------------------------------- Why R28 did not vote By Michiel van der Vlist, 2:280/5555 AKA 2:28/0 The sysops of Region 28 decided that RC28 would not cast a vote in the last election for FTSC membership. In the 2016 election a vote was cast with " abstain" for all candidates. That did not make much of a dent. So this time a stronger signal was attempted. The election is a farce! Ever since I was involved with the FTSC, first as standing member and later as administrator, all nominees who's name was not Bj”rn Felten have been elected. No matter how incompetent, no matter how inactive, no matter how ignorant and last but not least, no matter how much of an asshole, all except Bj”rn Felten, they were all elected. We have seen sysops unable to post from their own system getting elected. We have seen *Cs that were unable to produce an FTS-5000/5001 complient nodelist segment getting elected. We have seen sysops that remain dormant and only come out of the woordwork at election time getting elected. We have seen sysops that have never contributed one line of documentation but who only produce noise get elected and got re-elected for decades. More than half of the elected members are just seat warmers. They have contributed absolutely nothing. The election is an exercise in futility. R28 decided it no longer wants to play this silly game. Michiel van der Vlist RC28 ----------------------------------------------------------------- --- Azure/NewsPrep 3.0 * Origin: Home of the Fidonews (2:2/2.0) .