[Foundation-l] Leaking (was:elections)

James Hare messedrocker at gmail.com
Sat Apr 7 03:34:34 UTC 2007


We already had this discussion. We already concluded it was unbecoming of
Jimmy-Jimmy to endorse candidates.

On 4/6/07, Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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