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Two groups of editors are made SecurePoll admins for the duration of the election: "election commissioners" and "scrutineers":

• The election commissioners— fawiki users covered by the non-public data policy who are unconnected to any of the candidates in the election. Before the start of voting, they are responsible for preparing the ballot form with appropriate candidate links and instructions; and then their rights are revoked but they still act as a liaison between the scrutineers and the fawiki community.
• The scrutineers—Stewards are responsible for enforcing and arbitrating on the validity of individual votes, and certifying the results of the election.

Technical background

SecurePoll adminship is restricted to a single election, and enables access to CheckUser-like data on each vote cast, and to other interfaces within the election. Because of this access to data covered by the WMF Nonpublic Data Policy, all SecurePoll admins must be identified to the Foundation.

SecurePoll admins have access to the behind-the-scenes stuff, which is accessible via https://vote.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll. This is an enhanced version of the public log, which can be viewed for comparison purposes by going to the same location while logged out. It also gives access to the [Translate] tab, which shows the raw election messages displayed on the voting page (https://vote.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/vote/584), along with the option of editing them.

SecurePoll admins can strike votes by clicking on the "Strike" button displayed at https://vote.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/list/584 the voting page. JavaScript needs to be enabled to see this, because it is a toggle rather than a text message. Clicking on "Strike" changes the icon to "Unstrike", deletes the editor's votes, and adds a note to the associated Vote Log (accessible via the details button in the adjacent column). While all strikes are logged privately, the fact that a vote has been struck is publicly visible in the vote log; the record of who struck a vote is not public. Only scrutineers should ever strike votes; under no circumstances should an election commissioner do so.

Scrutineers' role

The primary role of scrutineers is to ensure that no abuse or technical error has occurred in the background of the election—for example, the striking of candidate votes or the changing of election messages to benefit or disadvantage a particular candidate (for instance, by swapping the names of two candidates partway through the ballot), by other SecurePoll admins. The scrutineers should verify that the tally has been counted correctly.

Scrutineers are permitted to use CheckUser tools on fawiki to assist them in identifying votes which do not meet the criteria above. There are a number of fawiki CheckUsers who are able to share their experience of the more well-known fawiki sockpuppeteers, or to undertake CheckUser activities at the scrutineers' request.

Because the SecurePoll interface provides aggregate CheckUser data for all votes, the unfocused use of that data is against fawiki policy against CheckUser fishing. While scrutineers can and should make full use of the data within the confines of the election, they should not act on identified account abuse except to strike ineligible votes. They should pass on any appropriate data to the fawiki CheckUsers listed above, who will follow the appropriate fawiki policies and procedures for identifying and sanctioning editors, as necessary.

Reporting

Once the scrutineers are satisfied that all votes remaining in the ballot are valid, they should tally the results using the secure poll page; complete the results table here, and each scrutineer should sign below to certify them.