[pp.int.general] Pirate Party UK elections

Fri May 4 14:50:34 CEST 2012

That's certainly one way (CoverItLive handles twitter feeds fine) but
it's a simple webpage to take part. Especially as line 5 in the backend
page says

Mainly, I think, because they know it'll be partially used with mobiles.
There's even apps -
http://www.coveritlive.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=154&Itemid=195

Andrew

> 
> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Andrew Norton <ktetch at gmail.com
> <mailto:ktetch at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> 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>
>> <mailto: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>>
>>> <mailto: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
> 
>>>     ____________________________________________________
>>>     Pirate Parties International - General Talk
>>>     pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net
> <mailto:pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net>
>> <mailto:pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net
> <mailto:pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net>>
>>>     <mailto:pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net
> <mailto:pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net>
>> <mailto:pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net
> <mailto:pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net>>>
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>> http://lists.pirateweb.net/mailman/listinfo/pp.international.general
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> 
>>> Jelena Jovanovi?
>>> about.me/cybernaut <http://about.me/cybernaut>
> <http://about.me/cybernaut>
>> <http://about.me/cybernaut>
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>>> ____________________________________________________
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>>> pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net
> <mailto:pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net>
>> <mailto:pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net
> <mailto:pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net>>
>>> http://lists.pirateweb.net/mailman/listinfo/pp.international.general
> 
>>     ____________________________________________________
>>     Pirate Parties International - General Talk
>>     pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net
> <mailto:pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net>
>>     <mailto:pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net
> <mailto:pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net>>
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> http://lists.pirateweb.net/mailman/listinfo/pp.international.general
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>> ____________________________________________________
>> Pirate Parties International - General Talk
>> pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net
> <mailto:pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net>
>> http://lists.pirateweb.net/mailman/listinfo/pp.international.general
> 
>     ____________________________________________________
>     Pirate Parties International - General Talk
>     pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net
>     <mailto:pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net>
>     http://lists.pirateweb.net/mailman/listinfo/pp.international.general
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> ____________________________________________________
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> pp.international.general at lists.pirateweb.net
> http://lists.pirateweb.net/mailman/listinfo/pp.international.general

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Andrew Norton
http://ktetch.co.uk
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