FESCo/FPB vote counting

[Mike McGrath]

Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 08:57:50AM -0400, Brian Pepple wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, 2007-08-12 at 10:21 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>>     
>>> Where are the numbers for the most recent elections?
>>>       
>> Here's the numbers for the last election.
>>
>> 107 Voters
>>     
>
> That sounds very little. Aren't we more like at least four times as
> many packagers alone? And weren't there even non-packagers admitted to
> vote? QA/doc/managment (I hope Max was allowed to vote :) etc?
>
> I don't know how many accounts were entitled to vote in total, but we
> probably only had 20-25% of people caring to vote, which looks
> bad [1]. How can we improve this mark?
>
> [1] Some people will use the argument "everyone was happy, so no one
>     went voting", but that's not a valid argument. If people are happy
>     the least they could do is click on a web voting application to
>     confirm their happyiness (which BTW is really a painless effort,
>     credits to the authors of it, I think this was mainly Toshio).
>   
Its a sad thing to say but...

"Most people were american, so no one went voting"

I could be wrong, but I bet apathy played a roll in low voter turnout.  
Or a lack of knowledge about the candidates.

    -Mike