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All elections you did not vote for have results with a dead link to OpaVote download page
This is what the election result usually looks like when you did not vote in that election (example from Islam but I can reproduce it on Solana and Board & Card Games and probably plenty others):
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Election result might be broken
Recently an election happened on a network site https://islam.stackexchange.com/election it ended on 13 November but the result is still incomplete.
Is that a bug?
Do results now take longer to ...
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Why is this election summary in past tense even before an election has started?
An election will be held in a couple weeks on Code Review SE. Near the bottom of the main content is an <aside> using past tense wording:
17,568 voters were eligible, 0 visited the site during ...
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Back link on moderator election history page refers to first ever election
Moderators can see a history of election notice on every election page, e.g. second (2017) election on ruSO:
If you're a moderator and you have more than one election already, just open the link {...
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Unable to translate "Save changes", "Cancel" buttons on moderator election page
On every election page there's a possibility to edit a notice of election (if you're a site moderator). When you started an edit there are two buttons "Save changes" and "Cancel":
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A couple of typos in the moderator questionnaire
There are some minor bugs in the 2023 Moderator Election Questionnaire:
(e.g. at https://music.stackexchange.com/election)
Question 1 has a grammar mistake:
How would you deal with a user who ...
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Vote buttons in the election primary are different from the new vote buttons
The 'Primary' page in elections still shows the old buttons:
Please update the vote buttons picture on this page.
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Links on some pages are displayed as subscripts on Chrome for Android
Links on some pages are displayed as subscripts on Chrome for Android. Example from https://webapps.stackexchange.com/election/6:
Environment:
Android 12; Pixel 6 Build/SQ1D.220105.007
Chrome 114.0....
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Stub image for deleted moderator on localized sites
Disclaimer: I can't find the same situation for other sites, but I believe that all of non-English sites are affected (hence this BR should belong to MSE, but not individual per-site Meta). // end of ...
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"Looking for your teams" highlighted when "How to vote" popup appeared
On the final phase of moderator election there's "Read more" link. When you tap this link the "How to vote" popup will appear. In this case link to "Looking for your Teams&...
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Flag popup is broken on election page for narrow screens
Flagging the candidate is almost impossible on the election page on narrow screens. See the animation below:
At the same time, flagging for a regular Q&A post works fine.
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Ballot widget makes it hard to see whether you've seen the entire list of candidates
The responsiveness of the Ballot widget on election pages is a bit unfortunate in some situations. Here is how it looks like in Firefox on a MacBook Pro 13" (with multiple tabs open). It's not ...
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Justify election phase tabs with long translated names to the right
On the election page, the tabs are aligned weird for non-English long enough translations:
In that case, there isn't any margin between tabs and candidates count. I suggest to align (justify) all tab ...
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In election primaries, the voting breakdown tooltip misidentifies election nominations as "questions"
Tooltip on expanded votes on nomination post says the following:
But this nomination notice is not a question!
As far as I see in translation data base this is the one source string (with plural ...
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Full sentence "{year} Moderator election" is needed for localization purpose
Currently the title on the moderator election page has the form {year} Moderator election. But it seems that that form is concatenated on server side from two parts: {year} and the rest text. E.g.:
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Withdrawing from an election and re-nominating allows nominees to invisibly push themselves to the top of the candidate list
According to election notice on nomination phase:
All nominees are displayed in reverse order of nomination.
But if someone withdraw yourself and apply again (the nominee notice even remains, so the ...
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Comment "flagged" on opening author profile in a new tab [duplicate]
I am faced with a very weird behavior with a comment on the moderator election page (reproducible only on Chrome/Safari on iPadOS 16.4). Opening the comment's author profile in a new tab leads to ...
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Make election page responsive on localized sites
Election page on ruSO currently looks like this:
As you can see the top part with dates and number of candidates don't fit into screen horizontally. So you can even scroll, but the rest of the page ...
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Translation for [Answer N here] placeholder is not used
It seems that the translation for "Answer N here" is not used on moderators election nominee page:
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Unable to translate "Show/hide questions" in questionnaire section of election
The questionnaire section on the election pages, e.g. here has links to 'Show' and 'Hide' questions:
There're no strings to translate in Traducir.
Also there's a little inconsistency with cases: ...
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Clicking on voted candidate does nothing on election page
On the moderator election page, e.g. here, the name of the candidate you have voted for is clickable (according to the cursor type as hand), but clicking it does nothing at all.
Clicking on the &...
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Prevent nonbreaking spaces from making an election completely non-responsive
In any narrow enough window, entire paragraphs are on the same line when voting for this election:
(On phone, this is the only view. On desktop, you can make this happen with a narrow window.)
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Newsletter says to cast a vote "by" the date of the end of the nomination phase instead of after
Recently I got an email with the MathOverflow newsletter (digest) which contained the following text:
2022 Community Moderator Election
The community moderator election is currently in the nomination ...
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Post Flag History page for nomination doesn't show a title
One of the nominations in our election received a comment flag. When I look at the post flag history (link for staff to reproduce), the description of the post is missing:
Normally, that's filled ...
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Dimming 'visited posts' in flag dashboard does not work for election nominations
The flag dashboard for moderators slightly dims entries for questions which you have visited (presuming you don't want to take any action now, so you can focus on other flags).
This feature does not ...
GlorfindelMod
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Link to candidate you voted for on election page not completely working
In the "Your final votes" section of election pages, when you hover over the name of a candidate you voted for, the mouse pointer seems to suggest you can click on it, but nothing happens. ...
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Moderator missing on election overview page
We have three moderators on Spanish Language Stack Exchange. Yet if you look at the election page, you only see two of us:
Why isn't Charlie shown in the results of the first election? That election ...
GlorfindelMod
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Orphaned "close this dialog" dialog when viewing an election as a moderator on mobile
When viewing an election on a site where you are a moderator while on mobile, a "close this dialog" dialog appears at the bottom of the page. It looks like the same thing that appears at the ...
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"Please consider nominating in the current election" banner is shown to anonymous and low-rep users
If you visit a site that has a running election in the nomination phase (example, at the time of writing the post), you get a banner with the following message:
We need your help! Please consider ...
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Empty banner on election page for future elections
When viewing the election page of an election which hasn't started yet, there's an empty blue banner at the bottom:
It should either be hidden, or filled with something like
Nominations will start ...
GlorfindelMod
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Server error for non-diamonds when attempting to look at some old election pages
When I attempt to access the "Nomination" phase of an election which has concluded, I get the "Oops! Something Bad Happened" page. This happens both on sites which I am a member of ...
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Election: Questionnaire history is titled "Revisions to unknown"
On the Mathematics election page, there is a minor bug in that clicking on a candidate's questionnaire history from the drop-down box [it looks like "history" has a larger font size?] leads ...
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The "elected in 20XX" link on the moderators tab does not show the most recent election for moderators that have been elected more than once
RPG just concluded their election, and one of our new moderators is actually an old moderator, nitsua60. The Moderators page in the users tab says nitsua60 was elected in 2017, and links to the 2017 ...
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OpaVote finds 3 more votes than the election page BLT
In the recent SO moderator election, OpaVote says that there were 28331 ballots. Downloading the .blt file from OpaVote and summing the vote weight also results in a total vote weight of 28331 as ...
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"(drag next selection here)" is treated as a candidate in an election
I have recently came across a very strange bug.
"(drag next selection here)" gets treated as a candidate.
I attached a GIF image to reproduce it exactly:
https://i.imgur.com/xXgiiNT.mp4
As ...
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Mod candidates can be dragged under the "Clear all" button when voting in an election
If all moderator candidates are added to the voting list, then when moving their order around, you're able to place them under the "Clear All" button in the list.
Pics below from Board & ...
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Election page's candidate count still counts withdrawn candidates
Stack Overflow is currently undergoing an election period. It originally had six candidates, but one was withdrawn using the new functionality introduced back in March (details here).
There seems to ...
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Candidates whose nominations have been withdrawn are still visible in the dropdown on mobile
When a candidate's nomination is withdrawn, their username is removed from the menu that lists candidates to be added to the ballot (on desktop). However, on mobile (responsive mode), the dropdown ...
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Why are election statistics only shown to moderators during the nomination phase?
When an election finishes, you can see a report with some voter statistics:
However, today I discovered that this information is also shown to ♦ moderators during an ongoing election:
I'm not sure ...
GlorfindelMod
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"Read more" link doesn't appear on Election page
Using Firefox 93 on a Mac, the "Read more" link to expand moderator nomination statements doesn't appear. See image here from the TeX.se moderator election page.
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Vote-totals tooltip says moderator nominations are questions, on the Primary election-phase tab
On the Primary tab of the 2021 Stack Overflow election, the "vote totals" tooltip says candidate nominations are questions:
Could we change that to say something like:
to be more accurate, ...
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Comment links don't show up on election pages if there are query strings or parameters in the URL
In Biblical Hermeneutics' election page, the comment links (on timestamps of the comments) are clickable if I visit https://hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/election directly.
If I visit the election ...
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Short links to comments on election nominations lead to server error
First off, this is probably the least significant bug I've ever reported. I'm not sure it's actually worth fixing. But it is a bug, so for completeness's sake... (and hey, maybe someone at SE is ...
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Nominations "history" button is not aligned with the other links on the election page
I noticed that the "history" button (under each nomination) is positioned slightly higher than the other links/buttons. This can be observed on the current Stack Overflow election page (yes, ...
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Inconsistency in displaying the results of elections on sites after their first election?
The election results for Physical Fitness SE show only one user:
Two other users ran in the election and presumably were not added to the list in the above screenshot, because they already had their ♦...
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“You should only rank the candidates you think would make good moderators.” – really?
The current election interface advises:
You should only rank the candidates you think would make good moderators.
Why?
I see two potential scenarios, both of which are dissatisfying:
The STV system ...
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The “history” link under nominations on election pages is dislocated and larger than the others [duplicate]
Under nominations on election pages, there are three links: link, history, and flag. For some reason the history link is shown in a slightly larger font and also a bit higher than the others:
I ...
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Bug in displaying previous year's election results [duplicate]
Today I visited the Workplace election result page to find who got selected as the moderators.
But in the results of the year 2018, I found something strange. It displays the username Snow. Snow has ...
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Voting buttons lose their style after voting for any candidate in election page [duplicate]
In the current election voting page, after voting for any of the choices, the voting buttons lose their style for the remaining candidates.
Initially the voting buttons look like below:
After voting ...
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Alignment of votes in Election [duplicate]
I have elected 3 users in The Workplace election.
The votes I casted are shown below the Election Phase tab.
Then they stand still in the right, even when I scroll down.
But they stand still even ...
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