- From: Jeff Jaffe <jeff@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 10:23:01 -0400
- To: "Nottingham, Mark" <mnotting@akamai.com>
- CC: Daniel Glazman <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com>, "public-w3process@w3.org" <public-w3process@w3.org>
On 6/8/2014 10:13 AM, Nottingham, Mark wrote: > Nope - that's mandatory voting; if you don't, it's a $50 fine. I don't know what others think, but I would not be overly supportive of using that approach for W3C elections. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 7 Jun 2014, at 10:46 pm, "Jeff Jaffe" <jeff@w3.org> wrote: >> >> >>> On 6/7/2014 4:11 PM, Nottingham, Mark wrote: >>> ... And in Australia, it's usually around 80%. >> Ah, the benefits of STV ;) >> >>> Just for the record. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>>>> On 7 Jun 2014, at 1:58 pm, "Daniel Glazman" <daniel.glazman@disruptive-innovations.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On 06/06/2014 22:31, Jeff Jaffe wrote: >>>>> >>>>> According to fairvote [1], typical turnout for Congressional elections >>>>> in the US midterm is about 40%. I don't have comprehensive data on >>>>> local elections, but when I searched for some article about that, I >>>>> learned that 25% is quite typical for municipal elections [2]. >>>> In the US, maybe. Not here on the Old Continent. Turnout for municipal >>>> elections is rarely below 60% in continental Europe... That's just for >>>> the record and does not want to have any influence on our current >>>> discussion. >>>> >>>> </Daniel>
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