[Foundation-l] Leaking (was:elections)

Anthony wikilegal at inbox.org
Sat Apr 7 01:22:56 UTC 2007


On 4/6/07, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> I can confirm that a leak of the ongoing vote counts did, in fact,
> occur in the last election. It occurred because an election official
> felt that the then-Board (and possibly others) should know the results
> of the election ahead of time to prepare. The leak occurred at a time
> when the result was very unlikely to change.

Presumably this was just before Jimbo made his announcement supporting
certain candidates and making vague reference to others not being
suitable, then?

I always suspected that was all about him finding out that you were
winning and trying to sabotage you.  Pretty obnoxious if it's true.

Anthony



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