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On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org>wrote:

> Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> >   - with such a large electorate, getting a majority of a 25+% voter
> >     turnout to vote for an election system change is going to require a
> >     lot of awareness raising. I'm trying to imagine a massive "our
> >     election system is broken, it's critical you turn out to fix it"
> >     being a positive thing. I'm also concious that if we did hold a
> >     vote to move to STV and it was rejected, that could be the end of
> >     the matter forever.
>
> Frankly, if getting a 25+% voter turnout is seen as an impossible task,
> that means the membership is fundamentally broken. And I think it is,
> due to the low bar of entry and lack of membership expiration.
>
>
Or the "my vote doesn't count" mentality... which is, at least imo, at
least as significant as the low-bar and lack of expiration.
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