There you go, now you are stating the obvious 
Even if you can all see that dabs was probably far from the score of lauda (60% lower to be specific). Another thing most of us didn't put dabs to be in our first option in the first place, your speculation is far from reality obviously.
He was just using Dabs and me, with arbitrary numbers, as an example to make a point. He's saying that voting for someone just because they're the moderator of your language/local section is wrong. I strongly agree with this statement. Votes should be objective, ergo you should not vote for someone due to bias. Even if you can all see that dabs was probably far from the score of lauda (60% lower to be specific). Another thing most of us didn't put dabs to be in our first option in the first place, your speculation is far from reality obviously. You may choose to disagree, of course, but from the thread title it is not clear altogether. On the contrary, it looks exactly like theymos blessed the election of the new team of global moderators. In fact, there are even two such threads which even further strengthens this feeling of official consent and blessing...
Then maybe it should be altered, i.e. add the word 'unofficial' into it?The fine print, yeah. We all know what that typically means, don't we?
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here.