Brian <Brian.Mingus@...> writes:
In my view, the only reason to limit voting to editors with a certain number of edits is to limit the effects of ballot stuffing.
Not as much ballot stuffing as canvassing. Most of the inactive users do not see the sitenotices and therefore they aren't aware that an election is going on. If you publish this information on channels that reach a certain subgroup of these ex-editors, that can indeed skew the results. (For an example, imagine far-right web portals announcing that there is a far-right candidate running.)