Hello, Election Committee needs your help as soon as possible. Ideally within a day. Please give a look to the message quoted below which I sent it to the foundation-l originally. We are going to contact over 200 people by email and would like to send a message in their own languages as possible as we can. Specially we need the languages * French * German * Dutch * Spanish * Polish regarding to the number of unqualified voters. Also there are needs of Portuguese, Chinese, Russian, Hebrew, Turkish or Czech, even voters from those language community is small in number. The request is on meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Translation_requests/Eleecom_mail%2C_07-05 Thank you for your help! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Aphaia &lt;aphaia(a)gmail.com&gt; Date: Jul 5, 2007 3:24 PM Subject: [Election] Unqualified votes striking To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List &lt;foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Hello, The Election Committee regretfully announces that we will have to remove approximately 220 votes submitted. These votes were cast by people not entitled to vote. The election rules state that users must have at least 400 edits by March 1 to be eligible to vote. [omitted] In accordance with voting regulations the Election Committee will strike the approximate 220 votes due to lack of voting eligibility. The list of struck votes are available at <https://wikimedia.spi-inc.org/index.php/List_of_struck_votes>. The Election Committee is trying to contact those voters separately by email. It is possible that some of those people may have accounts on other projects where they have more than 400 edits, and they may still be eligible to vote. We strongly encourage them to vote again with their other account. For those people who don't have any other accounts eligible to vote, we hope they reach the criteria in the next Election, and will be happy to see them participate in the future Elections. Your comments, questions or messages to the Committee would be appreciated, and can be made at [[m:Talk:Board elections/2007/en]]. Again, we would like to deeply apologize for any inconvenience. Kizu Naoko mailto:aphaia@gmail.com For Wikimedia Board Election Steering Committee ------------------------ forwarded mail -------------------------------- -- KIZU Naoko Wikiquote: http://wikiquote.org * habent enim emolumentum in labore suo *