I have asked both members of the technical staff of FlyerTalk, tim and joshua to review the candidate process and both have assured me that the scenario described could not have happened in that there is no record on our servers or activity log to indicate we received an application from Punki. As well, we reviewed the activity of all other candidate applications for this and past elections and have never found that this was any problem in the past. Our brains do sometimes trick us into believing we have done something because we intended to do it. Since the process of these applications are entirely driven by technology with no human intervention in the process and there is no tail for any type of error in the server logs, I have no choice but to declare the current list of candidates to be final.

The elections for new members of TalkBoard are held annually so I would certainly invite all active members, including Punki, to look forward to next year when they can enter their hat into the ring.

Thank you.