[Foundation-l] [Election] Unqualified votes striking

Philippe Beaudette philippebeaudette at gmail.com
Thu Jul 5 14:09:03 UTC 2007


Anthony - 

No one from the Foundation has the key.  That's one of the reasons for using a third party auditor/tally-er - only SPI has it.

Philippe
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Anthony 
  To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List 
  Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 8:38 AM
  Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] [Election] Unqualified votes striking


  On 7/5/07, Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com> wrote:
  > On 7/5/07, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
  > > On 7/5/07, Aphaia <aphaia at gmail.com> wrote:
  > > > Hello,
  > > >
  > > > The Election Committee regretfully announces that we will have to
  > > > remove approximately 220 votes submitted. These votes were cast by
  > > > people not entitled to vote. The election rules state that users must
  > > > have at least 400 edits by March 1 to be eligible to vote.
  > > >
  > > Did it change the results?
  >
  > We have no way to know the answer to your question, since we have no
  > access to tally.

  The encrypted votes are accessible on the website, I figured someone
  had the key.

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