The anonymized ballots from yesterday’s OSMF board vote are available as a handy text file on OpaVote, so I decided to play around with them a bit. Here’s a breakdown of the rankings for each candidate:

I was also curious if people usually filled in the maximum of four slots, or left some of them blank. This is the result:

• 0 candidates: 11
• 1 candidates: 21
• 2 candidates: 124
• 3 candidates: 114
• 4 candidates: 219

So most people did indeed list 3 or 4 candidates! With STV, the third place can matter even if there are only two seats available, so it makes sense to fill it in. Nevertheless, I also looked more closely at the top two spots to see if there are any interesting correlations. Based on all ballots with at least 2 candidates, here’s the popularity of top two pairings (the order of candidate names carries no meaning):

• Heather/Joost: 166
• Paul/Joost: 136
• Paul/David: 46
• Heather/Paul: 43
• Joost/David: 33
• Heather/David: 33

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