Details of request “Election Data and private companies”

Event history

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id	event_type	details	created_at	described_state	calculated_state	last_described_at	link
1039363	sent		2014-05-05 21:27:05 +0100	waiting_response	waiting_response	2014-05-05 21:27:05 +0100	outgoing
1043415	response		2014-05-08 15:00:36 +0100				incoming
1073560	response		2014-06-06 12:33:17 +0100		successful	2022-03-23 21:37:33 +0000	incoming
11458089	comment		2022-03-23 16:13:29 +0000
11458090	move_request	user_url_name	2022-03-23 16:13:29 +0000
11459766	status_update	described_state	2022-03-23 21:37:33 +0000	successful	successful	2022-03-23 21:37:33 +0000
11470985	edit_incoming	prominence, prominence_reason	2022-03-24 07:14:53 +0000				incoming
12144977	edit_comment	body	2022-06-13 09:59:19 +0100

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