[pp.int.general] Pirate Party UK elections

[Justus Römeth]

It needs to work on my phone, so maybe just using my twitterstream and me
not tweeting 'off-topic' may be the easiest way.

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Andrew Norton <ktetch at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 5/4/2012 4:27 AM, Justus Römeth wrote:
> > Thanks for the service yesterday. It did not work so well on my cell,
> > but that is probably mostly down to me using Symbian than anything else.
> > Great showing by the pirates, too, for the EP elections that would mean
> > one seat if I am not mistaken. Any news on the Scottish results?
>
> That will be happening today (the liveblog's running again to handle
> them). Since it's Single transferable vote, rather than FPTP, it's fed
> into a machine, so they do that today. 9also, my home town of Liverpool
> deferred their council results until this morning, as they spent last
> night doing votes for the first ever Mayor.
>
> >
> > I'd be up for helping you liveblog on Schleswig-Holstein, do you have
> > time to mumble on Sunday during the day to work out the details (am
> > travelling until then).
>
> Mumble does not work for me. It's NEVER worked for me. And I've never
> understood the obsession pirates have with it. voice is always less
> useful, especially for international work, because speaking and
> listening to languages, is harder than reading and writing (while using
> more bandwidth).
>
> Not many details to know though, I set you up an invite, it tells you
> how to log in, that's about it.
>
> Andrew
>
> >
> > On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Andrew Norton <ktetch at gmail.com
> > <mailto:ktetch at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > On 5/3/2012 4:13 PM, Jelena Jovanovic wrote:
> >> tnx
> >> will put it on PPI page immediately
> >
> > Ok, first results are back.
> >
> > If you've been following my liveblog
> > (
> http://www.ktetch.co.uk/2012/05/uk-pirate-party-local-elections-2012.html)
> > - and if not, why not? - then you'll know already. If you don't
> > want to
> > see the Manchester results, look away now!
> >
> > Ancoats & Clayton ward (Tim Dobson) 24.47% Turnout
> > Labour 1862, Green 215, Conservative 173, LibDem 100, TUSC 82, Pirate
> > Party 75
> > Thats a 2.99% result from 2507 votes
> >
> > City Center ward (Maria Aretoulaki) 13.65% turnout
> > Labour 704, Lib Dem 465, Conservative 234, GReen 190, Independant 159,
> > Pirate 57, UKIP 57
> > A 3.10% result from 1,834 votes
> >
> > Bradford Ward (Loz Kaye) 21.21% turnout
> > Labour 1903, Conservative 159, Green 141, Pirate 127, Libdem 106,
> > Communist 14
> > A 5.18% result on 2,450 votes
> >
> >
> > This is using First past the post, so quite impressive.
> >
> > The scottish votes will be counted in a few hours time, by machine,
> > since they're using Single transferable vote (as they elect multiple
> > candidates from each ballot, usually 4, but sometimes only 3)
> >
> > I'll be leaving the liveblog running, to help cover things
> >
> > I also ran an impromptu poll and it came out overwhelmingly in favour of
> > me doing this (or attempting to) again for the next set of elections,
> > which I believe to be both the Greek national elections, and the German
> > state of Schleswig-Holstein on Sunday.
> > If anyone wants to help out and participate, email me DIRECT
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> >
> >> Jelena
> >
> >> On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Andrew Norton <ktetch at gmail.com
> > <mailto:ktetch at gmail.com>
> >> <mailto:ktetch at gmail.com <mailto:ktetch at gmail.com>>> wrote:
> >
> >> If you didn't know, the UK Pirate Party is taking part in local
> >> elections today. There's about an hour until the polls close, and then
> >> it's the count.
> >
> >> To help keep people up to date with the results from Manchester,
> >> Edinburgh and Glasgow, I'm going to try and liveblog the results (I'm
> >> also covering Liverpool, where a longtime family friend, and head
> > of the
> >> UK Liberal Party (NOT the Liberal Democrats, but the party the
> > lib-dems
> >> split from in 88) is running for Liverpool Mayor.
> >
> >
> >
> http://www.ktetch.co.uk/2012/05/uk-pirate-party-local-elections-2012.html
> >
> >> If anyone wants to help out, I could always use an extra
> > contributor or
> >> two. If anyone wants to embed onto their own site as well, drop me an
> >> email and I'll send you the html.
> >
> >> Andrew
> >
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> > <mailto:pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net>>
> >
> > http://lists.pirateweb.net/mailman/listinfo/pp.international.general
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> Jelena Jovanović
> >> about.me/cybernaut <http://about.me/cybernaut>
> > <http://about.me/cybernaut>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> Andrew Norton
> http://ktetch.co.uk
> Tel: +1(352)6-KTETCH [+1-352-658-3824]
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