Thanks to all those who contributed their ideas. After considering the opinions posted on meta, I propose the below as our policies for voter eligibility in the coming Election: 1. Users indefinitely banned or blocked from any Wikimedia project may not vote in the Wikimedia Foundation Board elections. This means they may not vote using the blocked account or from any other account they may hold on a Wikimedia project. 2. Users temporarily banned or blocked from any Wikimedia project may not vote from the blocked or banned account for the duration it is blocked. However, they may vote from any other project on which they are eligible to vote, or they may vote after being unblocked if the election is still open. 3. Election officials may strike votes from users who do not meet the eligibility criteria described above. Officials may find disqualified voters by searching manually, by technical filtering (to be provided by developer(s) if possible), or by third-party reports. 4. Any Wikimedia user is invited to report questionable votes to the Election Officials. To ensure the authenticity of the reports, we highly recommend that bureaucrats or admins of a local wiki make the reports, and we appreciate the assistance of local wiki admins in checking such questionable votes. Admins of local wikis are welcome to report on projects other than the ones on which they are administrators; however, local admins are expected to be the most reliable source of such information. Your comments and feedback to the dedicated page on meta will be appreciated. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Elections_for_the_Board_of_Trustees_of_… The final version will be posted on meta and foundation-l before the Election starts. Cheers, -- Kizu Naoko Wikiquote: http://wikiquote.org * vivemus, mea Lesbia, amemus *