Merry Christmas Folks

Merry Christmas Folks

Good Night...See you tomorrow

Who will be Regional Council Members for the term 2015-2018 in SIRC?

Folks,

Can you guess the SEVEN names who will be the Regional Council Members of ICSI from Southern Region for the years 2015-2018? 

Who will be CC Members from Southern Region?

Folks,

Can you guess the three names who will be the Central Council Members of ICSI from Southern Region for the years 2015-2018? 

NIRC RC elimination going on - SIRC official Result announcement when?

Folks,

NIRC RC elimination is going on. The total elimination to be made for NIRC still are 20. There are around 15 officials in the entire counting process. Will take tonight to complete NIRC RC.

SIRC RC will be taken only after NIRC RC is over.

As of today evenig ICSI counting officials have not proceeded for SIRC both for CC and RC.

Tomorrow morning the counting for SIRC will be resumed. As of now no numbers are officially announced.  

So far ICSI not yet announced any numbers for SIRC officially at the counting venue; so lets wait for the official announcement tomorrow.......................

SIRC CC Position

Folks,

SIRC CC counting is not officially announced, but the ballots in respective trays are seem to be in the following order:

S.No.1 is in 1st position leading

S.No 2 is in 4th position

S.No.3 is in 3rd position

S.No.4 is in 2nd position the runner

S.No.7 may decide the 3rd position.....

S.No.8 and S.No.6 and S.No.5 and S.No.7 may be eliminated probably......order of elimination is based on official announcement of first count.

Christmas Day may decide the 3rd position. Keep Guessing....

Your comments are welcome

Kindly give your comments below.........

Candidates present at Counting Venue

Folks,

At present;

SIRC CC Contestants 3 are present out of 8 in counting venue. Guess the three?

SIRC RC Contestants only 1 is present out of 12 in counting venue. Guess the contestant?

One member registered in northern region (but his roots are south) is present in counting venue on behalf of many SIRC CC and RC contestants. Guess the senior member who is contacted by almost all the contestants including the senior-most officials of SIRO to get information from the counting venue?

Kindly post your views/reflections/comments below this post.

SIRC CC Sorting & Quota fixing

Folks,

SIRC CC sorting to all seven candidates going on.

Hope, we will know the exact position and quota by today night.

SIRC RC sorting will take place tomorrow since NIRC 3^rd RC elimination only is going on. Still 24 eliminations are there for NIRC.

Postal votes opening going on for SIRC.

NIRC - Quota : SIRC CC and RC quota ----- Have to wait for some time

Folks,

The quota for NIRC is fixed at 449.

The no of votes polled at NIRC are 5836.

The quota is calculated as follows: {5836/(12 + 1)}  + 1 = 449

Let's wait for SIRC CC and RC counting to be over for getting the magic number "QUOTA".

All the officers who are deputed have gone for Lunch. Lets wait till the lunch is over.

NIRC Counting first round over

Folks,

NIRC counting first round over. Sorting of votes of SIRC going on. NIRC CC results are over. NIRC RC first count over. There are 39 contestants in NIRC, only 12 have to be elected. Elimination of 27 will take full day of today. SIRC RC may be taken after NIRC RC eliminations are over.

SIRC CC sorting going on. TN votes are grouped. Waiting for AP, KA and KL parcels to be sorted.

Keeping fingers crossed.

Sorting going on for SIRC

Dear Folks,

The opening of Ballot Boxes may start from today afternoon. Will keep you posted the developments happening at NIRC-ICSI Prasad Nagar counting venue. 

Let's Wait for the Right Moment

ICSI Quota - The Ceiling - Demystified

Quota

The quota (sometimes called the threshold) is the number of votes a candidate must receive to be elected. The Hare quota and the Droop quota are commonly used to determine the quota.

HARE Quota:

When Thomas Hare originally conceived his version of Single Transferable Vote, he envisioned using the quota:

Quota =	Votes polled
	Available Seats

In the unlikely event that each successful candidate receives exactly the same number of votes not enough candidates can meet the quota and fill the available seats in one count. Thus the last candidate cannot not meet the quota, and it may be fairer to eliminate that candidate. 

To avoid this situation, it is common instead to use the Droop quota, which is always lower than the Hare quota.

DROOP quota: (ICSI  Method)

The most common quota formula is the Droop quota which given as: 

Quota =	(Votes polled)	+ 1
	(Available Seats + 1)

Droop produces a lower quota than Hare. If each ballot has a full list of preferences, Droop guarantees that every winner meets the quota rather than being elected as the last remaining candidate after lower candidates are eliminated. The fractional part of the resulting number, if any, is dropped (the result is rounded down to the next whole number.)

It is only necessary to allocate enough votes to ensure that no other candidate still in contention could win. This leaves nearly one quota's worth of votes unallocated, but counting these would not alter the outcome.

Droop is the only whole-number threshold for which 

(a) a majority of the voters can be guaranteed to elect a majority of the seats when there is an odd number of seats; 

(b) for a fixed number of seats.

Each winner's surplus votes transfer to other candidates according to their remaining preferences. 

Single Transferable Vote

Single Transferable Vote

What: The single transferable vote (STV) is a voting system designed to achieve proportional representation through ranked voting. Under STV, an elector's vote is initially allocated to his or her most preferred candidate, and then, after candidates have been either elected or eliminated, any surplus or unused votes are transferred according to the voter's stated preferences. 

Why: The system minimizes "wasted" votes, provides approximately proportional representation, and enables votes to be explicitly cast for individual candidates rather than for closed syndicate of contestants. 

How: It achieves this by using multi-seat constituencies (different regions) and by transferring votes to other eligible candidates that would otherwise be wasted on sure losers or sure winners.

Andrew Inglis Clark

ICSI Elections: A modified version of STV, known as the Hare–Clark system, is used in ICSI elections. The name is derived from Thomas Hare, who initially developed the system and the Tasmanian Attorney General, Andrew Inglis Clark, who worked to have a modified version introduced. Its critics contend that some voters find the mechanisms behind STV difficult to understand, but this does not make it more difficult for voters to 'rank the list of candidates in order of preference' in an STV ballot paper.

Thomas Hare

History of STV: The concept of transferable voting was first proposed by Thomas Wright Hill in 1821. The system remained unused in real elections until 1855, when Carl Andræ proposed a transferable vote system for elections in Denmark. Andræ's system was used in 1856 to elect the Danish Rigsraad, and by 1866 it was also adapted for indirect elections to the second chamber, the Landsting, until 1915.