Questions tagged [election]
Elections are held to elect new moderators for a given site. Use this tag for questions regarding the election process, questions regarding a specific election should be posted on that sites meta.
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Multiple inbox notifications and badges for an upcoming election
There's an election upcoming on Arduino.SE for which I would have enough reputation to nominate myself. It started today, and by now I have received no less than three inbox notifications informing me ...
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Can I opt out of receiving election nomination reminders in my inbox?
I was startled to received this message in my inbox today: We need more candidates for the [x] community moderator election. Why am being notified of this issue? There have been countless elections, ...
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The "Questionnaire" heading for an election nomination should be an actual HTML heading, not a div, as it trips up screen readers
A candidate's answers to the election questionnaire (example election) appear under the "Questionnaire" section heading. Except it's not really a heading: it's a plain <div>. <div ...
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The text at the bottom of an election page should not be an <h2> as it trips up screen readers
The text at the bottom of an election page (example) is all an <h2>: <h2> This election is currently in the <a href="/election?tab=nomination">nomination</a> ...
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Should moderator elections be automatically held? (e.g. at least once every X years? when there are < Y mods? etc.)
6 sites have 1 mod (emacs is active), 41 (~23%) have 2 mods (solana+quant most active), and 51 (>28%) (some fairly active) haven't held elections since at least 2020: none (12 sites): civicrm, hsm(...
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Did the election schedule just change by four hours?
A couple of minutes ago, 16:00 UTC, I received notifications that nominations have started on Photography and Space Exploration Stack Exchange. Those used to start at 20:00 UTC, like this recent one ...
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Refresh the dialog for flagging nominations to match the one for posts
Current Proposed For reference, here's the current post flag dialog: This: Updates the caption to be consistent with the post dialog Rewrites the final flag option The text is updated to be closer ...
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Dead link to OpaVote software on the election page (in the announcement of results)
After successful election, the election page contains text: "This election ended ... Voters have access to pre-built OpenSTV software to audit the results ..." This text contains the link ...
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Minimum character limit indicator "x more to go..." broken for nomination posts
When writing a nomination for a moderator election, there's a counter below to help you with the minimum character limit (120). However, it doesn't update if you start typing so it seems to be broken; ...
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There are no line breaks on some Moderator Election pages between the user cards and the accompanying election summary text
This appears to be a network-wide issue - on the /election pages, the results for recent elections doesn't have a line break between the user cards for the elected moderators and the accompanying text....
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Improve the wording about the election start date in the template for Question Collection questions
There are two elections coming up early July, and here are the Question Collection questions posted on their meta sites: 2025 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection (Astronomy.SE) 2025 ...
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The election tab of the mobile view of moderator election page does not show the description for election
When I access the page for the current moderation election in SO on mobile, I noticed that the description for the election (including e.g. Candidacy Criteria, Election Process) is missing for the ...
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Receiving multiple prompts to vote in an election, even though I already voted
I've received 2 prompts to vote in Stack Overflow moderator election, even though I've already voted. I'm clearly not the only one with this. Is this related to the fact that only 10% of voters got ...
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Didn't get a notification that the Stack Overflow election started
Yesterday, a Stack Overflow moderator election started, but I didn't get a notification in my inbox even though I have enough reputation to vote. I did get two other election messages at that same ...
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Is the reputation requirement for past election displayed incorrectly if the threshold wasn't the default value?
If you visit page for any past election, on the nomination tab you can see the information saying that "a community member ... with more than [n] reputation may nominate themselves to be a ...
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