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If you are really concerned with low voter turnout, give the people who voted an in game T-shirt with some (stupid, though not necessarily) logo on it, for each CSM election.

CSM 9 could have been an angry bear chewing on a truck, for example.
CSM 10 could be, I dunno, a Concord logo.

Some concept designs of popular ships, which you should already have from your artists, could also put on the shirts and further advertise custom paint jobs available for sale in the Nex Store. Promotional things that promote current events and other promotions which gets people involved and eventually spending money.

You get the idea.

Even if their candidate doesn't win, they will get something for their trouble, thus an incentive can only be positive in this regard.

They'll vote in droves just to get that cosmetic for their avatar every year.

Problem solved.

If you are serious about the system, you have to market it to players better, and no, spamming them with ads is not the way to do it.

Think about how much of this sentence currently applies to bloc voting. I bolded the parts that I think do apply.

Uneducated voting versus bloc voting. Hmm, which is honestly worse?

If your bloc tells you to vote for their candidate, do you honestly care what they stand for other than that your bloc is telling you to vote for them? Even if you care, does it matter? It's technically your candidate. Would you say bloc voters are more educated in this regard? Less educated? Or just about the same.

Besides, just by making a person show up to an event, you are educating them. Before they click something, they have to read something. This may even lead to a choice on what they click on. And that is the basic democratic process.

Sure, some may just not appreciate the gesture all together and click on the first thing that pops up but I like to think that even a little bit of education is better than nothing. The trouble is getting the person at the voting booth more than educating them prior to them arriving at the booth.

And it goes without being said, that CCP needs to put something more tangible on the candidate selection screen than just their name. I think someone suggested earlier that a tag would work, to summarize the focus of their platform. IE, nullsec, lowsec, highsec, that kind of thing.

If you get a lot of people there, they are likely to click on something they like as opposed to something they don't, and that is the first step in an educated vote. But technically, getting them there in the first place, is the first. :)

The most important thing in a democracy is having people show up. There is technically no wrong choice in the democratic process. It doesn't matter how educated you are. Without turnout, the democratic process doesn't work and is easily undermined by bloc voting. As we see has happened here..

Real democracy (as in real life) is very much dependant on quantity versus quality of voters. Otherwise it is easily undermined. That is why, in real elections, the most important thing usually is not about who won, but voter turnout.

Voters who care about one thing, must be balanced against those who don't. Or don't care about anything. Otherwise, the biggest party always wins.

still waiting david

I plainly stated earlier that voting for a prize equals turnout and you hope the result is that some of those people end up engaged in the process.

You sir, are exactly the kind of voter CCP should be targeting. Those who do not see the value in the CSM because its value is hidden behind NDA and lack of communication.

Let's increase voter turnout with people like this. Not just buying people to come out and vote for whomever for the sake of a raw number.

lol, how are you still not understanding that turnout by giving people prizes does nto mean people are engaged. Sure, you might get a handful of people that are, but the majority would click randomly for their prize, which would destroy the process for anyone that IS engaged. If the only thing that mattered for a vote was the raw turnout numbers, then sure, prizes would work, but that's not all that matters so it's a ridiculous idea. Like lets just destroy the CSM process yeah, and for what? A random piece of junk that's worth some peasant amount?

I would say it's neither. It is to be a sounding board. They have no role in being developers, junior or otherwise, nor do they have any authority to hold anyone accountable. They are a semi-permanent focus group with maybe a little bit of "all bark, no bite" watchdog thrown in. That is in no way to diminish its role. We the players should be happy to have that rather than just expect the "voice of the forums" to reflect our views.

This may have been mentioned, but could political burnout be a partial cause for the low turnout.

I play this game A. Because it is fun, and B. It provides a nice break from all sorts of real world garbage, Partisan Politics being a big source of that garbage.

The whole CSM and a good amount of forum posting is simple Partisan Politics. Instead of Left,Right, Tea party, etc. etc. here in Eve we have various groups in Null, Low, and High Sec representing their playstyles. And just like in real life each group KNOWS what is best for Eve and has ZERO concerns that their views will screw over platstyles other than their own. Most important they all come to the forums to spout their ideology and ridicule those who see things differently. I see the same crap everyday in the comment sections of news articles.

I play Eve to get a break, not to get involved in more political BS. Find a way to eliminate the partisanship of the process and I might find a reason to become interested in voting.

Warcrimes.

Really like the idea of a video message from Hilmar. Kind of a public service announcement/appeal to the players. Appeals never hurt

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