Attempt to address concern about lack of evidence linked.

It's not our goal here to document all the irregularities in this
election.  The original draft included a last-minute request from a
frustrated party to communicate that.  With the LWN link, I think we
have what we need in this regard anyway.

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@@ -6,11 +6,10 @@ undersigned petition the Open Source Initiative (OSI) to release the
 anonymized ballot data for OSI's 2025 Board of Directors election —
 including votes for all candidates who received any nomination.
 
-The basis for our petition is that three candidates' votes were not counted
-for failing to follow a qualification procedure that historically was only
-required of election winners, not mere candidates. Furthmore, OSI imposed
-this procedure without advance notice after completed; candidates were given
-a mere 47 hours to comply.
+The basis for our petition is that three candidates’ votes were not counted.
+OSI states these candidates failed to follow a qualification procedure.
+Multiple candidates have confirmed that they were informed of this
+qualification procedure only after voting closed.
 
 OSI's announcement at
 https://opensource.org/blog/announcing-the-new-directors-of-osi-board