From: Bradley M. Kuhn Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 08:26:39 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Attempt to address concern about lack of evidence linked. X-Git-Url: https://iankelling.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=54d10248a297e2da4f6d24e510c468d91d8fd773;p=election-results-2025 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. --- diff --git a/petition.md b/petition.md index 9a2530c..51452f6 100644 --- a/petition.md +++ b/petition.md @@ -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