We did, indeed, have excellent candidates and my congratulations to all who ran (and especially those who were elected).

My guess as to why the voter turnout is so low (and not only this year) is that TalkBoard's remit is so limited that most people do not care who is on it.

Basically, TB:

1. Determines whether a proposed forum will be established.

2. Establishes and revises its own internal rules.

3. Once in a very rare while makes a decision which might impact a large number of members but in what is really a minor way (eg: should Omni posts count?).

Many active, and excellent, FTers have very little interest in any of those questions, so why would they bother voting for TB?

Give TB substanially wider authority (even on a "recommendation-only" basis), and you will see much greater interest and turn out for the elections.