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Excerpts from Zane Bitter's message of 2016-10-10 11:10:53 -0400:
> On 09/10/16 19:58, Tony Breeds wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 10:49:12AM +1100, Tony Breeds wrote:
> >> Please join me in congratulating the 6 newly elected members of the TC.
> >>
> >> Doug Hellmann (dhellmann)
> >> Emilien Macchi (emilienm)
> >> Jeremy Stanley (fungi)
> >> Monty Taylor (mordred)
> >> Sean Dague (sdague)
> >> Steve Martinelli (stevemar)
> >>
> >>
> >> Full results: http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_356e6c1b16904010
> >
> > Following up on this  Here are some statistics for this election:
> >
> > +----------+-----------------------+-------------------+-----------------------+
> > | Election | Electorate  (delta %) | Voted   (delta %) | Turnout %   (delta %) |
> > +----------+-----------------------+-------------------+-----------------------+
> > |  10/2013 |       1106  (    nan) |   342   (    nan) |     30.92   (    nan) |
> > |  04/2014 |       1510  (  36.53) |   448   (  30.99) |     29.67   (  -4.05) |
> > |  10/2014 |       1893  (  25.36) |   506   (  12.95) |     26.73   (  -9.91) |
> > |  04/2015 |       2169  (  14.58) |   548   (   8.30) |     25.27   (  -5.48) |
> > |  10/2015 |       2759  (  27.20) |   619   (  12.96) |     22.44   ( -11.20) |
> > |  04/2016 |       3284  (  19.03) |   652   (   5.33) |     19.85   ( -11.51) |
> > |  10/2016 |       3517  (   7.10) |   801   (  22.85) |     22.78   (  14.71) |
> > +----------+-----------------------+-------------------+-----------------------+
> >
> > Election CIVS links
> >  10/2014: http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_c105db929e6c11f4
> >  04/2015: http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_ef1379fee7b94688
> >  10/2015: http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_4ef58718618691a0
> >  04/2016: http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_fef5cc22eb3dc27a
> >  10/2016: http://civs.cs.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/results.pl?id=E_356e6c1b16904010
> >
> > It's interesting to note that we increased voter turnout this election,
> 
> This is truly excellent news :)
> 

I totally agree.

> > perhaps as a side effect of the complications with emailing the ballots?
> 
> That's an interesting idea, although I like to think it was also helped 
> by the fact that members of the community were actually engaging with 
> the candidates and generating a robust debate. Thanks Gordon, Clay, and 
> all the other folks whose questions helped to spark that - I hope we'll 
> see even more of it in future elections.
> 
> I'd certainly appreciate a follow-up email towards the end of the voting 
> period (i.e. it wouldn't even necessarily need to be a re-sending of the 
> ballot link - finding that again is generally no problem). I wanted to 
> see what the candidates had to say in response to the various questions 
> on the mailing list before voting, but I was definitely starting to get 
> nervous toward the end of the week that I might forget.
> 

Indeed. I think it might make sense to have a brief period between
nomination deadline, and poll creation, maybe 1 week, to spark this
debate and get the community engaged with the candidates. This goes for
all of the elections.