Maemo.org and ITT were two separate entities with the latter being owned by Reggie. Although Nokia got ITT to adopt the TMO name it paid Reggie annual chargers for hosting and maintaining the forum in return presumably.

This is why different accounts exist as one was based on servers at Nokia while ITT/TMO accounts were based on Reggie's own servers.

While Nokia allow HiFo to use the Maemo trademarks etc, Reggie donated his database to HiFo in return for the pre-existing privacy policies being respected AFAIK. At no point was TMO sold or donated to Nokia. It always remained Reggie's property hence his ability to donate it to HiFo without interference from Nokia.

The current situation is messy because of this inherent division.


Edit: About the lack of votes, some perspective needs to be brought in. At any one point of time TMO on average has 40-<100 members online. The most users online in recent times was IIRC during Jolla's launch or one of their announcements. That too numbered less than 1,000.

So getting 83 voters is actually not that bad a statistic considering many people may be passive members and wouldn't want to cast "wrong" votes. Maybe chemist can be pressed to release the average number of active members with the condition being active at least once a week for a proper co-relation with the voting figures.