http://maemo.org/vote/votes.php?election_id=7

Of the 303 ballots, only 298 of them are non-empty. Still that was a somewhat better turn-out than last election, when only 161 valid ballots were cast.

I downloaded OpenSTV and ran the ballots (for some reason, the election title is on two lines in that file; this needs to be fixed before the ballot file works in OpenSTV)....

And as holder of the Sacred Secret Magic maemo.org Council Hat, I can say that .... It's going to be a very interesting term.

The new Chairman has spoken!

I'm afraid not, guys. I'm not chairman material. We need a person who is good at organization for that kind of thing.

Honestly, I'm not council material either. However, my name is well known.

NOW you tell us.

Heh. Suckers.

How could you do this to us man?? I voted for you!

PS: Heh, I voted for all 9 candidates, so you'll be hearing me say this line again and again whenever the opportunity presents itself

For those who won't bother to run the ballots in openSTV (and fix the election title in the ballot file). Here's a copy-paste from my run at the ballots. Still waiting for the official results though.

Edit: Can someone verify that I used the correct counting method?

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./runElection.py RTSTV ../election.blt
OpenSTV version 1.5 (http://www.OpenSTV.org/)

Loading ballots from file election.blt.
Ballot file contains 9 candidates and 303 ballots.
No candidates have withdrawn.
Ballot file contains 298 non-empty ballots.

Counting votes for Maemo Community Council elections, Q3 2009 using Random Transfer STV.
9 candidates running for 5 seats.
Using a Droop-Static-Whole threshold.

R|Randa|Jason|Matth|Alan |Andre|Steph|Valer|Graha|Gary |Exhau|Surpl|Thres
|ll Ar| Cart|ew Le|Bruce|w Bla|en Ga|io Va|m Cob|Birke|sted |us |hold
|nold |er (z|wis(p| (qol|ck (A|dsby |lerio|b (gc|tt (l| | |
|(Texr|eroja|engui|e) |ndrew|(sjga| (VDV|obb) |cuk) | | |
|at) |y) |nbait| |FBlac|dsby)|sx) | | | | |
| | |) | |k) | | | | | | |
================================================== ========================
1| 50| 11| 37| 66| 14| 15| 38| 37| 30| 0| 16| 50
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------
| Count of first choices. Candidates Randall Arnold (Texrat) and Alan
| Bruce (qole) have reached the threshold and are elected. Candidates
| have surplus votes so surplus votes will be transferred for the next
| round.
================================================== ========================
2| 50| 13| 42| 50| 15| 16| 38| 39| 34| 1| 0| 50
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------
| Count after transferring surplus votes from Alan Bruce (qole). No
| candidates have surplus votes so candidates will be eliminated and
| their votes transferred for the next round.
================================================== ========================
3| 50| | 45| 50| 15| 21| 39| 42| 34| 2| 0| 50
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------
| Count after eliminating Jason Carter (zerojay) and transferring votes.
| No candidates have surplus votes so candidates will be eliminated and
| their votes transferred for the next round.
================================================== ========================
4| 50| | 46| 50| | 23| 41| 47| 37| 4| 0| 50
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------
| Count after eliminating Andrew Black (AndrewFBlack) and transferring
| votes. No candidates have surplus votes so candidates will be
| eliminated and their votes transferred for the next round.
================================================== ========================
5| 50| | 48| 50| | | 50| 54| 39| 7| 4| 50
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------
| Count after eliminating Stephen Gadsby (sjgadsby) and transferring
| votes. Candidates Valerio Valerio (VDVsx) and Graham Cobb (gcobb) have
| reached the threshold and are elected. Candidates have surplus votes
| so surplus votes will be transferred for the next round.
================================================== ========================
6| 50| | 48| 50| | | 50| 50| 40| 10| 0| 50
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------
| Count after transferring surplus votes from Graham Cobb (gcobb). No
| candidates have surplus votes so candidates will be eliminated and
| their votes transferred for the next round.
================================================== ========================
7| 50| | 73| 50| | | 50| 50| | 25| 23| 50
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------
| Count after eliminating Gary Birkett (lcuk) and transferring votes.
| Candidate Matthew Lewis(penguinbait) has reached the threshold and is
| elected.

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

That's still a little low given we put so much work into a) communicating it and b) identifying tmo users who were eligible to vote with emails directing them how to sort themselves out.

It seems "increasing council election turnout" should be another goal for the next council as well.

That you guys did... kudos!