I'm very sorry, that simply isn't true. I've seen the figures for the last few elections (I really cannot recall if the votes from the last election were made public or not, so I'm not going to go into detail in case they weren't!) and your statement is not one which can be made with any degree of credibility. The election in which I was elected had one of the highest turn outs we'd ever seen, principally because of the use of the 'I voted' icon on the profiles of those who had voted. There are ways in which we can increase awareness of TB elections and they can be pretty effective.

In answer to your more general point, I tend to agree. I am completely in favour of letting specific forums know when we are discussing things which will affect them, to get feedback from those that use the forum. For more general things, such as this programme, I'm sure most board members would quickly learn to ignore board-wide announcements from us saying 'look what we are talking about now' and to some they would be actively annoying. TB elections occur once a year - the rest of our work goes on all year round.

TB can certainly improve communications - how we do that remains a matter of debate, but knowing how much some members hate stickies and announcements and such like, I'm pretty convinced for general matters that is not a route we should be going down.