Maemo Community Council Elections

Maemo Community Council now has four new members and one returning council member. There were 9 candidates and 5 open slots on council

Candidate line up
Gary Birkett (lcuk)
Andrew Black (AndrewFBlack)
Alan Bruce (qole)
Jay Carter (zerojay)
Graham Cobb (gcobb)
Stephen Gadsby (sjgadsby)
Matthew Lewis (penguinbait)
Valerio Valerio (VDVsx)

The voting system used for the Maemo Community Council elections is called STV (Single Tranferable Vote)

To say the least this was very confusing to me. You can get the details here —> http://maemo.org/vote/results.php?election_id=7

Election title: Maemo Community Council elections, Q3 2009
Method: Fractional Transfer STV with Droop-Static-Whole threshold
Number of total ballots: 303
Number of invalid or empty ballots: 5
Number of ballots used in the count: 298
9 candidate running for 5 seats.

Winners are:
Randall Arnold (Texrat)
Matthew Lewis(penguinbait)
Alan Bruce (qole)
Valerio Valerio (VDVsx)
Graham Cobb (gcobb)

Congratulations to all the winners, including myself

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Some of the things I plan to focus on as a new council member are:

Communication Channels
New Users experience
Get more voter participation in next community election

I am interested to hear what the rest of the world thinks I or other council should be working on?