[Foundation-l] [Election] Unqualified votes striking

Andrew Gray shimgray at gmail.com
Thu Jul 5 15:59:20 UTC 2007


On 05/07/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:

> > The voter lists we sent to Software in the Public Interest (our third
> > party election partner) initially were wrong. There was a bug in the
> > edit counting program and the sent list contained every account with
> > 201 or more edits, instead of 400 or more edits.
>
> Wait. Did you simply misspeak above?   Is the situation only that the
> edit count criteria was misapplied and nothing has been changed from
> the official election rules.
>
> If that is the case then there is no problem, although more care is
> required in the communications sent.

I tihkn it's just confusion over where the cutoffs like - as I
understand it, the rules haven't changed, it's just that we
accidentally implemented them wrong the first time.

As for communication, oh, the joys of half of us speaking in a second
or third language...

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk



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