Hi Eric,
in my opinion a downturn in voter participation is to be expected when
the decision gets more complicated and time consuming. ("Oh, looks like
this will take longer than expected. I don't have time for this now, I
will do it in the evening..." - what could possibly go wrong?)Btw, do the absolute numbers point in the same direction? Regards, Franz Am 25.04.2017 um 13:00 schrieb Erik Albers: > Hi list, > > the Fellowship elections 2017 are over and the winner is Daniel Pocock. > > https://fsfe.org/news/2017/news-20170425-01 > > I like to thank all candidates for bringing life into this years election and > every voter for rewarding our candidates' activities by participating in the > elections. > > Unfortunately, we only had a participation of around 17 % which seems to be > the lowest participation since we record participation (2014). Many of the > list subscribers here have had the possibility to vote, so I like to ask for > explanations and possibilities how we can raise participation? > > The low amount of participation leaves me in particular wondering as this year > we had 7 candidates, each of them with a short representation in out wiki [1], > public hustings [2] and a reminder three days before the end of elections. > > However, former elections with only one (!) candidate and without reminders > and no public hustings (2016 and 2014) have had more participation ... > > Why is this? Please help us to understand what FSFE can do to make the > electiosn more appealing or raise participation? > Or help us to understand what was the reason that this year there was such a > low amount of participation? > > Thank you very much, > Erik > > [1] https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/Election/FellowshipElection_2017 > [2] https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/Election/FellowshipElection_2017#Hustings > >
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