 The magazine of the Melbourne PC User Group Returning Officer's Report David Owen |
Mr. John Swale
Secretary
Melbourne PC User Group Inc
I present to you my report of the election held at the Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 1 December
1999.
Annual Election Results
Voting
There were 487 votes cast of which 76 were informal leaving 411 valid votes.
The breakup of votes was:
| Postal | 277 total (75 informal, 202 valid) |
| Meeting | 210 total (1 informal, 209 valid, cast by proxy holders: 100) |
The following are the results of the election declared at the AGM on 1 December 1999:
| President: | Morris Tobias | (unopposed) |
| Vice President: |
Dave Botherway |
voting: 179 + 192 postal = 371 (defeated Thorn Lyons 30 + 10 postal = 40) |
| Secretary: | John Swale | (unopposed) |
| Treasurer: | Bill Ford | (unopposed) |
Committee: Eight elected (votes are in braces after the candidate's name)
| George Skarbek | (208 + 172 postal = 380) | |
| Ash Nallawalla | (177 + 168 postal = 345) | |
| John Morris | (183 + 156 postal = 339) | |
| Noel Peters | (166 + 154 postal = 330) | |
| Keith Beresford | (177 + 142 postal = 319) | |
| Ray Beatty | (178 + 118 postal = 296) | |
| Barry Martin | (122 + 138 postal = 260) | |
| Brian Horman | (117 + 46 postal = 163) |
Unsuccessful candidates were:
| Bob Mayston | (15 + 98 postal = 113) | |
| Dianne Cummings | (35 + 46 postal = 81) | |
| Thom Lyons | (38 + 23 postal = 61) | |
| Robert Mead | (27 + 21 postal = 48) | |
| Don McKenzie | (26 + 18 postal = 44) | |
| Colin Lumsden | (24 + 17 postal = 41) | |
| Mark Trickett | (27 + 9 postal = 36) | |
| David Graham | (30 + 4 postal = 34) |
I would like to thank:
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the five members of the Freemasons Taskforce who acted as poll clerks for their professionalism and good humour in a very hot tally room. They earned every dollar of the small donation that was made to their nominated charity
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Melb PC auditor, Peter Salter, who assisted and over-viewed the elections;
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Morris Tobias and Trish Swan who, at my request, helped sort the postal votes fur me to check:
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the candidates arid their scrutineers who checked the count;
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several members who wrote to me during the election period bringing to my notice things that I duly considered before making decisions on votes cast.
I will give to the committee my recommendations for possible rule changes to make elections simpler in the future. And to encourage more members to vote than the 4.6% of our membership who voted this year.
David Owens - Returning Officer
(former Melb PC Secretary 1988-91)
Frederick Owen & Associates Pty Ltd - Solicitors
55-57 Cardigan Place, Albert Park, Victoria. 3206
Reprinted from the February 2000 issue of PC Update, the magazine of Melbourne PC User Group, Australia
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