Eligibility Votes - March 2022

[Andy Howie]

Is there any info on the method of the online voting itself. Is it an off the shelf package, or does Andy go out every day for more Creme Eggs . Who is overseeing it. I presume proxy votes don't exist. Questions, questions...

I can't stand Creme Eggs

It is very simple,  I can pull down a spreadsheet from the site and use the membership and grading databases for cross checking membership using a bit of clever programming.  I oversee it as Exec Director and I have another person who checks.  Really quite simple and works really well.

Thanks Andy. Another person...okay. Are you talking about how you get the membership lists. Where does the votiing fit into that.
Have you a running count throughout or do you just go in and get the data after the close of the vote

Walter. Votes have to be checked to make sure the voter is eligible. I check it a couple of times a day primarily to make sure there are no issues, for example in the past people have submitted a blank vote. I can contact them and advise their vote has not been registered. I don't have the facility to remove votes, I can only delete them all.

If you are asking do I communicate how the vote is going, the answer is yes to one other person, the checker. Neither of us pass that number onto anyone else as I am sure anyone who has asked me how the vote is going will tell you. The only people who know anything until the vote is closed is myself and the checker.

One the vote has closed, as I did last night. We did the last verification and sent the results onto the management board. They currently have them along with some analysis of the votes. After they have digested them and any implications. I will post the results on the website. I am aiming to do this today but I aiming to do that this evening after work and I have sat down to relax for an hour.