[pp.int.general] Pirate Party UK elections

[Justus Römeth]

I'll try to work it out on Sunday during the day, am busy until then :-)

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Andrew Norton <ktetch at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 5/4/2012 8:38 AM, Justus Römeth wrote:
> > It needs to work on my phone, so maybe just using my twitterstream and
> > me not tweeting 'off-topic' may be the easiest way.
>
> 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
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> Mainly, I think, because they know it'll be partially used with mobiles.
> There's even apps -
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> http://www.coveritlive.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=154&Itemid=195
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> 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
> >
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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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> Andrew Norton
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