MAY - JUNE 2008 CONTEST PERIOD:
VOTING RESULTS --
Rank: Award |
Contestant Name/Link |
Individual/Group/Org |
#1: $200 |
|
International Business Club |
#2: $160 |
|
Maayan Kreitzman, Gina Eom, Tim Louman-Gardiner, Brendon Goodmurphy |
#3: $120 |
|
The Knoll Publication Society |
#4: $80 |
|
Blake Frederick |
#5: $40 |
|
The Devil's Advocate |
Details of May-June Vote Count: (How about checking the tally?)
- Raw Votes
- Formatted Votes (for input into OpenSTV)
- Condorcet Tally Matrix (Notice the sequence of 1-on-1 contests; compare ballot for new Vancouver municipal VFM.)
MAY - JUNE 2008 RULES
Entry Period: May 4 - May 31, 2008 -- Entry Form. (Best to enter before May 16)
Voting Period: May 16 - June 30, 2008.
Awards: $600 total -- 1st prize $200, 2nd $160, 3rd $120, 4th $80, 5th $40.
Contest Entry Fee: $10 for this period.
(Media) Contestants: Open to any person, group or organization, whether affiliated with UBC or not.
Voters: UBC students.
Voter Registration: Email your UBC campus-wide login ID (not password) to mark[at]votermedia.org. I forward them to UBC staff, who usually upload them Mon Wed & Fri mornings. You only need to register once for the whole year of periodic contests.
How to Vote: Log in at www.vista.ubc.ca. Click on "VOTE - VoterMedia". You vote once in each contest period.
Voting Format: Preferential voting -- you rank all the media, specifying your 1st choice contestant, 2nd choice contestant etc.
Vote Aggregation Method: The Condorcet method implemented by the program OpenSTV (with "Schwartz Sequential Dropping"). This determines a first-place winner; then that contestant is removed from consideration and the same method determines the second-place winner; etc.
Judging Criteria: Voters are free to evaluate media contestants any way they choose. Media contestants are free to appeal to voters (or not) any way they choose.
YEAR-ROUND VFM SYSTEM:
AMS Council voted to launch a voter-funded media system running continuously all year. I (Mark Latham) am funding and administering it, with oversight of the Turbo Democracy Committee. This contest runs on a periodic cycle. We adjust the rules and length of each period as we go forward.
More Details about voting, publicity, and future plans for this contest here.
MARCH - APRIL 2008 CONTEST PERIOD:
VOTING RESULTS --
Rank: Award |
Contestant Name/Link |
Individual/Group/Org |
1: $250 |
|
Maayan Kreitzman, Gina Eom, Tim Louman-Gardiner, Brendon Goodmurphy |
2: $200 |
|
The Devil's Advocate |
3: $150 |
|
Blake Frederick |
4: $100 |
|
The Knoll Publication Society |
5: $50 |
|
uVOTE:
Political Awareness Club of UBC |
Details of March-April Vote Count: (How about checking the tally?)
- Raw Votes
- Formatted Votes (for input into OpenSTV)
- Condorcet Tally Matrix (Notice the sequence of 1-on-1 contests; compare ballot for new Vancouver municipal VFM.)
- Question Statistics
Awards: May vary from one contest period to the next. For March-April: $750 total -- 1st prize $250, 2nd $200, 3rd $150, 4th $100, 5th $50.
Further Info on VFM:
See the articles "How UBC Can Change the World" (brief) and "How To Create Public Interest Media in Your Democratic Community" (detailed).
VoterMedia blog
January 2008 UBC VFM contestants & results
