I don't know if there was an issue of vote padding with the last election, but due to the exponentially increasing size of the FT membership, I wonder if it may be a good idea to impose some sort of "registration" restriction on those who are allowed to vote in the upcoming Talkboard election.

Perhaps limit the ability to those who've been registered and posting members for a minimum of 6 months? I'm a firm believer that when it comes to post count "size doesn't matter", and wouldn't expect anything over say 10 or 20 posts, but I think to fairly consider who might or might not be a good choice requires having spent some quality time at least READING the boards and have added to at least a few conversations.

Comments??