Congrats to Swami

[dj]

Congrats to Swami!

I have not always seen eye to eye with Swami but I want to sincerely congratulate him on his success in this election and, more importantly, his ability to increase the vote in elections in which he stands. It is a testament to the enthusiasm he engenders. I think it is Swami’s participation that has been instrumental in pushing the CCC vote to a record 197. All the elections (both CCC and CTF) in the past couple of years that have had high turnouts have been when Swami participated. Swami’s popularity is further shown by the fact that those he says he would also like to be elected alongside him invariably do well. Swami advocated Matthias Gemuh and Jeremy Bernstein on this occasion. Matthias got more votes than anybody else and Jeremy came an honourable fourth. It would, of course, been a tall order to defeat Graham Banks because he always wins a lot of votes.

Swami neither participated in nor showed an interest in the CTF election and I think this helps to explain the decline from 117 to 76 votes. Swami did not stand in the CTF election in June but he did post to name the candidates he hoped to see elected. I am sure Swami’s support helped created a record turnout and ensures that the three he favoured did well – certainly better than many of us expected. Swami surely helped to secure Thorsten’s victory over Sam Hull by his electioneering.

Well done, Swami. A great achievement today and on previous occasions.

[mariaclara]

Derek,

if you notice, CCC subforum tournaments & matches - directors/ and the like usually win.

take a stroll in that subforum and you'll be surprised there are a lotta guys in there.

Graham, Peter and Swami are very popular there. they are tournament directors and/or are running their own tournaments.

so I'm not surprised th ey have a lotta support.

[dj]

Derek,

if you notice, CCC subforum tournaments & matches - directors/ and the like usually win.

take a stroll in that subforum and you'll be surprised there are a lotta guys in there.

Graham, Peter and Swami are very popular there. they are tournament directors and/or are running their own tournaments.

so I'm not surprised th ey have a lotta support.

I completely agree about Graham and Peter (who was not elected), neither of whom were supportedby Swami. What is your point?

Graham and Peter got the number of votes I would have expected from a poll of 140 votes. I doubt whether many votes from the resuscitated dormant accounts went to either of them. Did you not see the following?
http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopi ... 12&t=31970

[mariaclara]

Derek,

Please explain how inactive accounts were able to vote?

Isn't the rule , only those active within 3 months can vote.

My point is what I posted. I expected a lot of Tournement & Matches enthusiasts to vote for Graham, Peter, Swami.

but not for "outsiders".

However, if you do not want to recognize the validity of this election,
please feel free to do so.

It's your call.

[swami]

Derek,

Thanks for your wishes.

I have not called up any unknown dormant account people to vote for us if that's what you're implying.

It seems some of Robbo fans campaigned in other places to get us elected.

Huge number of Robbolito fans were against censorship to link Robbolito downloads:

http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30772

http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30665