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Eoghan Glynn wrote:
>> However, the turnout continues to slide, dipping below 20% for
>> the first time:
>
>    Election | Electorate (delta %) | Votes | Turnout (delta %)
>    ===========================================================
>    Oct '13  | 1106                 | 342   | 30.92
>    Apr '14  | 1510	(+36.52)  | 448   | 29.69   (-4.05)
>    Oct '14  | 1893       (+25.35)  | 506   | 26.73   (-9.91)
>    Apr '15  | 2169       (+14.58)  | 548   | 25.27   (-5.48)
>    Oct '15  | 2759       (+27.20)  | 619   | 22.44   (-11.20)
>    Apr '16  | 3284       (+19.03)  | 652   | 19.85   (-11.51)
>
>>
>> This ongoing trend of a decreasing proportion of the electorate
>> participating in TC elections is a concern.

One way to look at it is that every cycle (mostly due to the habit of 
giving summit passes to recent contributors) we have more and more 
one-patch contributors (more than 600 in Mitaka), and those usually are 
not really interested in voting... So the electorate number is a bit 
inflated, resulting in an apparent drop in turnout.

It would be interesting to run the same analysis but taking only >=3 
patch contributors as "expected voters" and see if the turnout still 
drops as much.

Long term I'd like to remove the summit pass perk (or no longer link it 
to "one commit"). It will likely result in a drop in contributors 
numbers (gasp), but a saner electorate.

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)