EC> o You are not a voter, nor a candidate and you have failed to show EC> that you are a party with a vested interest.
Every listed sysop in Fidonet has a vested interest in this election, the nodelist which you used as a cut-off point had my name in it and as such I have a right to file complaints or issue remarks.
Further, your message d.d. Nov.24 announcing preliminary results is addressed to "All" without any further specification or elaboration. Hence it is clear that "All" can protest the reults, meaning everyone listed in the nodelist.
Your argument therefor fails.
EC> o In the particular case a public ACK clearly was superfluous and EC> bordering on ridicule.
That also fails because you have accepted votes which were sent by netmail to you, possible even routed, and by the very virtue of that were compromised.
While commendable that there was indeed an ACK so that the audience would understand and appreciate what was going on, there is not a single clue at how many netmailed votes that did NOT make it or which were ... dismissed ... or not.
Not claiming it happened but by not properly accomodating netmailed votes at the beginning of the show the shadow of doubt was cast ... the low voter turnout in Z2 at the least is suspicious.
For this reason the whole election is compromised and should be properly re-run from scratch.
EC> Your complaint is dismissed as irrelevant and frivolous.
Even that is unacceptable because the relevance has clearly been demonstrated above.
You cannot handle yourself a complaint against how you ran this yourself and get away with it. Such practices were only possible in the Polit Bureau of the Russian Communist Party, and in the PRC, and in North Korea.
A respectable organisation would have the election performed by an outside authority and would set-up a complete different body to handle complaints.
You are acting as if you were the organiser, the vote collecter, the counter, the announcer, the one who deals with complains and ruler of it all.
If you insist on that, then this election is totally compromised and if I were a candidate I would step back ... sorta.
