User blog comment:-Algol-/Of policies, admins and the community/@comment-173.188.179.211-20130128034828/@comment-217683-20130129232454

And what the anonymous editor said is pretty much what the admins have been saying all along. The issue is that Ygrain went around to other wikis contacting people she knew would likely vote the way she wanted them to. She didn't contact a bunch of editors at random. She contacted a very few, who had either been inactive at this wiki or just not taken part in the vote, choosing only people who had voiced positions similar to her own, asking them to take a look at the vote.

That's why the admins felt that a fair vote was impossible. Ygrain was purposely trying to stack the deck in her favor, as it were.