Everything hinges on the real vote tally

I think everything here is ultimately going to hinge on the real tally of votes, which OSI has not published because they excluded candidates.

If the candidates in question got a tiny fraction of the votes, small enough that all the other documented irregularities probably don't account for enough to have mattered, then nothing else really matters much here, and OSI members are not interested in the proposed reform platform. People will likely dismiss most of the rest of the irregularities and similar; they *shouldn't*, but they likely will.

If the candidates in question got enough votes that one or more of them would have *won*, on the other hand, then this is de facto an exclusion of candidates after the fact, and should be publicized as such. It doesn't matter if that was the intent, that was the *effect*.