[Foundation-l] Fwd: Election vote strikes

[Philippe Beaudette]

On Aug 11, 2009, at 10:58 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:

>
> I am interested in the specific nature of the coding error, for
> example "The script applied the wrong cutoff date" or "edits across
> multiple projects for the 600 edit criteria were merged based on UID
> rather than username" or "users from prior years were also permitted"
> or "users whos name shared a common prefix with a permitted user were
> additionally permitted".

My understanding is that some edits were incorrectly counted twice.   
So, it artificially inflated the edit counts of everyone for the  
suffrage counts.  I'm not that technical, though, so I hope that  
someone who is will explain, and I'll poke them :)