It's been 7 months since the [2011 Stack Overflow election](https://stackoverflow.com/election/1), and it's been a fun ride, hasn't it? A few of us were just reviewing the entries, when we noticed that [Tim Post](https://stackoverflow.com/users/50049), one of the elected moderators, is [not present in the primaries phase](https://stackoverflow.com/election/1?tab=primary).

Clearly, he was in the primaries since he got elected. But all 30 slots in the primaries are filled, and he's not there. Further digging shows that Tim's *current* reputation is insufficient to put him in the primaries when compared against the original pool of 56 nominees and their *current* reputation after 7 months. That is, **the primaries phase of a completed election appears to filter based on the current reputation of nominees rather than who actually made it to the primaries**.

Not many sites get affected by this, but it remains something to be investigated.