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From: dewey@sequoia.UUCP (Dewey Henize)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: voting results -- soc.religion.islam
Message-ID: <968@sequoia.UUCP>
Date: 15 Nov 89 20:36:20 GMT
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In article <98222@ti-csl.csc.ti.com> tavi.rice.edu!ti-csl!gwydion@cs.utexas.edu (Basalat Ali Raja) writes:
]
]The final vote tally is:
]
]          yes votes: 145
]          no votes:   28
]          in favour: 117
]
]
]I am sorry about the delay, but my home machine suffered a 
]disk crash right after the voting period ended, and I was
]unable to retreive any of the files containing the votes off
]there for a while.
]
Apparently there's more problem than that.  I know I tried several times
to vote on this.  No response, no bounce, and I'm not in the list.

]with the vote; in many cases the names are missing.  The 
]addresses are also, in some cases, not absolute addresses
]but addresses offset from my home site.

I'm NOT crying fraud here.  But something is really wrong with these
votes.  I have a lot of trouble believing that this issue generated such
low turnout after all the discussion, and I also really have a problem
with the addresses.  Scanning over it, there are very few that aren't
internet sites, as if the various uucp sites didn't get there at all.

I DO suspect a mailer somewhere that's busted.

]I have not included any forwarded votes for which I was unable 
]to contact the original voters; there were a few of these,
]however all of these people voted yes (there were no forwarded
]no votes).   Generally speaking, though, if you received a 

By the way, what's this about forwarded votes?  I thought a person voted,
not asked someone else to vote.  Again, not a cry of FRAUD, but I'd really
like to hear about this innovation.
]personal acknowledgement from me, your name should be here.
]
]I have included the names of the voters when they were sent 
]
]Once again -- a summary - the newsgroup name is soc.religion.islam
]and the proposed moderators are 
]
]Naim Abdullah [naim@eecs.nwu.edu]
]Shari VanderSpek [shari@wpi.edu]
]Behnam Sadeghi [oxy!sadeghi@csvax.caltech.edu]
]
]
]My thanks to everyone who voted.  
]
]Regards,
]Basalat Ali Raja.
List of votes deleted.  
See article <98222@ti-csl.csc.ti.com> for the list posted.
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