COTY

[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

I’m glad I get to be the first to congratulate the Beadlake Crew for winning Cache of the Year for their cache Gandy Dancer Gordon Sumner!

It was a hard fought race right to the end. I hope I can get up to try your cache this summer.

[Jeremy]

The COTY results have not been officially certified yet. It might end up being a tie or Match Head might be declared the winner once the Board decides what the definition of a “legitimate” vote is.

Remember scores of people down in Florida hand counting “hanging chads”… that’s where we are at with this now. 🙄 The results of COTY depend upon whether a small number of votes are counted or not. Please bear with us as this gets sorted out.

Note that this delay is a direct result of some less than above board voting by some WGA members in this election (as was reported in another topic), but I’ll save that rant for another day…

[beadelake crew]

We would not be disappointed if we had to share COTY with a worthy cache like Match Head. We just got home and have no idea what is going on, but everyone keep on caching and have fun!

[CacherClan]

@Jeremy wrote:

The COTY results have not been officially certified yet. It might end up being a tie or Match Head might be declared the winner once the Board decides what the definition of a “legitimate” vote is.

Remember scores of people down in Florida hand counting “hanging chads”… that’s where we are at with this now. 🙄 The results of COTY depend upon whether a small number of votes are counted or not. Please bear with us as this gets sorted out.

Note that this delay is a direct result of some less than above board voting by some WGA members in this election (as was reported in another topic), but I’ll save that rant for another day…

any idea when the results will be certified?
I hope all the votes were on the up-and-up as well
an honer such as COTY means nothing if it wasnt earned fair and square

IMHO

[GeoPink]

The board has been and will be discussing and making a decision very shortly. This has certainly been a learning experience for all involved. We are fortunate to have gotten the bugs out in the COTY voting so that the BoD Elections will continue to run as smoothly as is being reported to the board.

Look for an announcement this weekend or early next week regarding COTY, I’m sure each cache is truly deserving.

(PS I editted the topic title to reflect the current state of the COTY contest. I didn’t want it to look like an announcement of any sort and cause any further confusion.)

[beadelake crew]

Just so everyone knows, BeadeLake Crew had nothing to do with the votes in question. We were notified by email what had happened. We want this to be fair. TyeDye has been very cool about this whole deal. We both just want a fair vote!!!!!

[GeoPink]

You are correct.

This really comes down to only a few questionable votes. Not to worry, discussions are commencing and decisions are forthcoming. 😀

[Tyedyeskygal]

We would also be happy to share the honor with the Beadlake Crew. It’s obvious no matter what happened that they were not invloved and more importantly that there were a lot of folks who loiked both caches.

[CacherClan]

any news yet?

[GeoPink]

I wish…

The board is really struggling here. There is so much ambiguity as to what was a legitimate vote and what was not. There is a motion on the table so some sort of a vote will be forthcoming, hopefully soon.

Thanks for your patience.

[rogheff]

This has me curious about the BOD voting. Is each computer allowed 1 vote, each user name allowed 1 vote, each family allowed 1 vote or…..?

[Lostby7]

Welcome to the wonderful world of Internet voting…..

[greyhounder]

@rogheff wrote:

This has me curious about the BOD voting. Is each computer allowed 1 vote, each user name allowed 1 vote, each family allowed 1 vote or…..?

Each registered user is allowed 6 votes for this BOD election.

Bec

[rogheff]

So if I had 5 user names, I could cast 30 votes? Sorry to throw a monkey wrench into the works.

[GeoPink]

@rogheff wrote:

So if I had 5 user names, I could cast 30 votes? Sorry to throw a monkey wrench into the works.

That is the monkey wrench in the works… Multiple user names per user.

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