[Foundation-l] Unable to vote

Mon Jun 2 22:23:52 UTC 2008

On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 14:38 -0500, Austin Hair wrote:

> On 29 May, when I had planned a nice weekend of editing ahead of me, I
> was told that the cutoff for recent edits had been changed from 1 June
> to that day.  Interpreting "between 01 January and 29 May 2008" to
> mean "from 2008-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2008-05-29 23:59:59 UTC," I made
> a smattering of edits and just barely made it in, or so I thought.
> 
> Unfortunately, the definition of "between" being used for the purpose
> of suffrage is rather different, so it looks like I won't be voting
> this year.

On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 15:50 -0400, Nathan wrote:
> I don't remember seeing a notice in an update from Pathoschild that
> the eligibility requirements had experienced a second date change. Did
> I miss it?

The 50 edits date was between 03-01 to 05-31 (23:59) initially. This was
extended back as announced to 01-01. We then realised the eligible list
of voters would need time to generate, so the end date was pushed back
to 05-29.

To be honest, when I proposed it, I had intended & interpreted the 05-29
to be inclusive of that day as well. Unfortunately, that wasn't what was
updated to on meta election pages, and subsequently implemented
(correctly according to the election pages) by Tim.

:(

KTC 

-- 
Experience is a good school but the fees are high.
  - Heinrich Heine
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