[PDB Gov] Results of 2017 Election of PeeringDB Board of Directors

[Chris Caputo]

Subsequent to the election, the PeeringDB Board and myself learned of a 
member who wanted to vote but was unable.

The emails this member sent to secretary at peeringdb.com were not delivered 
to me, for an unknown reason.  Their SMTP logs show email was delivered to 
the @peeringdb.com provider, but the email provider did not forward them 
to me.  I presume the email provider determined they were spam.

While as far as I can tell, it is not possible for a single additional 
ballot to have changed the outcome of the election, given the distribution 
of votes, this is still a concerning event.

I would like to understand if anyone else tried to register but had no 
response from me.  Please email stewards at lists.peeringdb.com if this 
happened to you, so that the whole PeeringDB board and myself can hear 
about it.  (MX for lists.peeringdb.com and peeringdb.com are different.)

I can also be reached directly at ccaputo-dated-1503895434.3ba77b at alt.net 
for the next few months.

Chris Caputo
PeeringDB Secretary

On Sun, 30 Apr 2017, Chris Caputo wrote:
> The 2017 election for the PeeringDB Board of Directors has concluded.
> 
> There were 6 candidates this year for 3 available Director seats.
> 
> 117 organizations were registered to vote, and from them, 103 ballots were 
> counted.
> 
> The winners in order of vote count and thus seat occupied:
> 
>   Seat 1 (term expires 2019): Bijal Sanghani
>   Seat 3 (term expires 2019): Arnold Nipper
>   Seat 5 (term expires 2019): Patrick W. Gilmore
> 
> Appreciation to the other candidates for running:
> 
>   Mehmet Akcin
>   Kate Gerry
>   Nick Harland
> 
> Gratitude to outgoing Director Matt Griswold for his service since 2015.
> 
> The complete PeeringDB Board of Directors is now:
> 
>   Seat 1 (term expires 2019): Bijal Sanghani
>   Seat 2 (term expires 2018): Aaron Hughes
>   Seat 3 (term expires 2019): Arnold Nipper
>   Seat 4 (term expires 2018): Job Snijders
>   Seat 5 (term expires 2019): Patrick W. Gilmore
> 
> Detailed results including Single Transferable Vote (STV) stages:
> 
>   http://docs.peeringdb.com/gov/misc/2017-04-30_Comprehensive_Poll_Results.pdf
> 
> Verify your votes with your receipt codes:
> 
>   https://www.bigpulse.com/disclosevotes?code=1493519362vQV4siP6uFEaR8YESEbT
> 
> For STV first timers:
> 
>   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote
>   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8XOZJkozfI
> 
> Thanks to the community for participating in this election.
> 
> My personal thanks to Steve Feldman for observing the election.
> 
> Questions welcome!
> 
> Respectfully,
> Chris Caputo
> PeeringDB Secretary