Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee/CheckUser and Oversight/May 2010 election

The Arbitration Committee determined in March 2010 that additional Oversighters and CheckUsers were needed to improve workload distribution and ensure complete, timely response to requests. Following an application period, and review of submissions by the Committee, the below candidates were presented for community consideration. The election process was as follows:


 * The May 2010 election using SecurePoll ended one minute past 23:59 UTC on May 27, 2010.
 * For this election the Committee will likely take up to 4 Checkusers, and 6 Oversighters from the vetted candidates.
 * Voters can vote for as many candidates as they wish and must have made 150 mainspace edits by March 31, 2010.
 * Current arbitrators and former arbitrators from within the past year may not vote.

For answers to common questions about the election process, please see here. The results are posted below.

Timeline of election process

 * March 31 – Announcement of upcoming election and invitation to request applications
 * April 10 – Deadline to request applications
 * April 12 at 23:59 UTC – Deadline for submission of applications
 * March 31 – April 30 – Arbitration Committee review of submissions
 * May 1-8 – Preparation for election, including offers of nomination to selected candidates
 * May 7 – Candidates are announced and may post a brief statement
 * May 8-27 – The community may begin asking questions of the candidates. Question/Comment period will continue throughout the voting period.
 * May 14-27 – Voting using the SecurePoll extension for a secret ballot
 * May 28-31 – Arbitration Committee review of results
 * June 1 – Announcement of results

Results
Below are the results of the elections for CheckUser and Oversight permissions conducted in May 2010:

CheckUser results
 * Note: 393 users participated in this election

Oversight results
 * Note: 368 users participated in this election