FESCo/FPB vote counting

[Josh Boyer]

On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:59:37 -0500
Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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?

Yes.  I believe that we had roughly 10% voter turnout.

> Its a sad thing to say but...
> 
> "Most people were american, so no one went voting"

Heh, perhaps.

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

I think it's likely the latter.  But apathy probably played a part as
well.

josh