[Licom-l] License Update Demographics

Fri May 15 13:28:38 UTC 2009

This email summarizes the demographics of the participants in the
license update poll.  The result of the poll is not yet determined.

A total of 18691 ballots were submitted.  Of these 17461 were retained
as valid and 1230 were discounted as invalid.

Most of the invalid votes were obvious duplicate votes.  In the event
that a single individual cast multiple ballots, the most recent ballot
cast was retained and any old ballots were discarded.  This includes
930 cases where the same user at the same wiki attempted to submit
multiple ballots, and an additional 256 cases where the same user
voted multiple times using accounts from different wikis (technical
evidence was used to establish that the accounts were shared and not
just coincidentally named).  The final 44 ballots were eliminated due
to various other issues, including cases of deliberate sockpuppetry.