[Foundation-l] Voting suffrage criteria (established members should be able to vote)

Sun Jun 22 19:33:26 UTC 2008

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Colleagues,

I'm concerned.  I'll start off by saying I'm not sore, just concerned.
I'll use my personal experience to illustrate the larger problem.

The elections require an account to have so many edits to gain
eligibility to vote.  Now, I believe the intent was to be sure that
prior to voting, members are established.  My previous account, which is
established, has enough edits. The password is scrambled.   I think
everyone knows I'm established.  My enwiki "NonvocalScream" does not
meet criteria.  The account is unified, and is my permanent account is
not eligible on any project... yet.

The election committee informed me that I should attempt to contact a
sysadmin to recover the eligible account's password.  This was
unsuccessful. (No response from sysadmin) So I contacted the elections
committee three days prior to the end of voting.  No response from them
either.

The end state: I was unable to vote.

I don't want this to happen to anyone else.  Being unable to vote while
being an very established member of the community should not happen.
This should not happen to anyone, ever.

My suggested changes for the next election vote:

Keep the criteria, but allow the voters table to be modified via a
transparent meta wiki page.  Modified by those with the ability to check
 stories, make sure there is no double voting.

Thoughts?

Jon

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