[Foundation-l] Leaking (was:elections)

Mark Williamson node.ue at gmail.com
Sat Apr 7 03:31:02 UTC 2007


No matter who was winning, it seems pretty obnoxious to me. It totally
ruins democracy when the God-King steps down from his throne to
endorse certain candidates.

Mark

On 06/04/07, Anthony <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
> 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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