On Wed, 6 May 2009, Bonnie Corwin wrote: > On 05/ 5/09 04:14 PM, Valerie Bubb Fenwick wrote: >> Dear Community - >> >> The OGB has been discussing the election turnout on the >> private alias. This message serves as the notification of >> the private discussion and our high level summary of the >> information. >> >> As part of an effort to understand the disappointing turnout >> of this year's election, the OGB had been given access to the >> login records on the poll server (not the actual ballots). >> >> Here is what we found: >> >> 466 people had active core contributor status at the time of the election >> 300 people logged into the polling server >> 268 ballots were cast >> 20 people logged in, but were not eligible to vote >> 12 people logged in, were eligible, but did not cast a vote > > I don't quite understand these numbers because they don't match the data on > poll.os.org. > > The election results on polls.os.org show 268 ballots cast for electing OGB > members (Question 1). > > And it shows 271 ballots were cast for the constitution question (Question > 2). Of the 271 cast for Question 2, 249 were non-abstaining; 22 were > abstentions. But I thought both counted as ballots cast for that question. > > http://poll.opensolaris.org/4/
Hi Bonnie - That would be my fault. I had noticed the descrepancy in ballots cast, it should say 271 were cast - which may just mean that 9 people logged in, were eligible, but didn't cast. This wasn't meant to be a scientific analysis, but rather a quick look at the numbers. As noted by others, our community is so small that it is interesting (to the OGB) that we didn't have higher turnout. We would like to see higher turnout next time around, and hope that by sharing our concerns people will tell us why they didn't vote (too difficult, didn't care, didn't know). Valerie -- Valerie Fenwick, http://blogs.sun.com/bubbva Solaris Security Technologies, Developer, Sun Microsystems, Inc. 17 Network Circle, Menlo Park, CA, 94025.
