While I think c-mans post may be over the top, it does bring up a very valid point.

The election has become a joke. This bodes very poorly for the TalkBoard overall.

Elections closed a long time ago. There is on reason that the results should not have been posted 30 minutes after that.

I know with the events of last month, people are very busy. And that's completely understandable. However, the balloting system should have been providing up-to-the-minute counts for the powers-that-be. All it would have taken was a 10 line e-mail from said powers saying who won.

The fact that this hasn't happened makes me wonder if something more sinister isn't going on.

Simply because of the lack of transparency into the process, and massive delays of posting the results, I'm tempted to call for a revote using a transparent open voting system. Also a revote that would help account for the non-NorthAmerican bias so well documented by MB.

However, I"m not going to do that. What I am going to do is to formally ask the powers-that-be to let us know, very quickly, what's going on. Note that I'm not asking for the results of the election. I'm asking for a detailed account of why the results haven't been published yet. Simply knowing the results at this time would no longer be sufficient -- at least not to me.