Members survey:

In the 2015 Essendon Board elections there were about 40,000 members who were eligible to vote.
Less than 3,000 members voted.
For some this may not be a concern. For me I do have some concerns:
Basically my view is that community groups, Political, Union or Sporting Clubs are best run, can deal with change and has the best chance of continues success if a majority of members are activity engaged in the democratic process available.
I asked the club for some information and their response is:
“In terms of voting, we have researched the demographics of those that vote and find that proportionately it is the older demographic of member that votes in the elections. Voting numbers also seem to be reduced when the member base is not seeking change. Additionally, our voting patterns are similar to that of other AFL clubs
We continue to promote the elections to our member base, through mail, website and EDMs”

In general, I think this response is reasonable, however I would like to see if there are other reasons and if there is something the club could be doing to improve the percentage who vote for example encourage younger members to vote.
This post is not meant as a discussion on my views about participation is right or wrong, nor is it meant for comments about why members did or did-not vote.
With this in mind I have prepared a survey on Survey Monkey and can be accessed via this web address, just cut and paste.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/6CH93VT

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I plan to leave the survey open to the end of the 2016 season.
I will NOT be submitting additional posts to this one, rather once a month I will bump this post in order to remind potential responders or catch others who may have missed seeing the post before.
My appeal is ONLY to the Financial Members who were eligible to vote and chose not to vote.
If I get enough of a response to the survey by the end of the 2016 season I will publish the results and try to place some analysis to the answers.
If I don’t get enough responses, then it’s just a bit of my time wasted.
So I hope that Financial Members who did-not to vote will respond.
You don’t need to leave your personal details.
Again the web address to the survey is:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/6CH93VT

I don’t know for sure, but here’s a thought.

Maybe, next time two candidates are elected to the board running under a specific platform… That you don’t do completely the opposite 10 months later.

Boys club won again. Does not matter one iota what we do. So why bother. Answer that in your ■■■■■■■ survey.

So… You reckon people who couldn’t be bothered voting, are going to be bothered filling out a survey?

Best of luck sir.

I don't know for sure, but here's a thought.

Maybe, next time two candidates are elected to the board running under a specific platform… That you don’t do completely the opposite 10 months later.

Boys club won again. Does not matter one iota what we do. So why bother. Answer that in your ■■■■■■■ survey.

And you know what. They never did.
But let’s not rain on your ill informed delusion.

For my own pleasure I’ve added a poll to this thread.

Seriously Paul Young. You lost. Get over it.

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Huh. What?

The top three vote getters got ~1300, ~1200, and ~800.

I know the Raptor lost, but he didn’t get enough anti-votes to drag them and the rest down to 3000 total votes.

EDIT: Oops. Two votes each. I didn’t disagree with the sentiment, but the need for snark drove me to error.

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15 of them are facebook groups, 1 is bigfooty, 1 is r/essendonfc.

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Seriously Paul Young. You lost. Get over it.

Man my forum skills are rubbish. Can’t post image. My apologies.

Seriously Paul Young. You lost. Get over it.

Man my forum skills are rubbish. Can’t post image. My apologies.

Just put the link in the attach image file box and hit enter.

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1 x is a Bomber BDSM forum.

Sorry, my bad-that is the SAGA thread.

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Just follow the trail of banned Bruce Francis accounts from site to site.

Other clubs would have similar results I’d suspect. Nearly 10% of members voted. If voting wasn’t compulsory in government elections I reckon you would also see a similar result, I know our local council election this year was won by a bloke with under 400 votes. A lot of people just can’t be arsed voting

Too busy taking selfies

I wanted to vote but was not forwarded any voting information. Was the election handled by the A.E.C?

Shisha!

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  1. AFL House - 140 Harbour Esplanade. Docklands Vic. 3008
  2. AFLPA - Level 2 Sports House, 375 Albert Rd, Albert Park, VIC, 3206
  3. The AGE - Level 2, 655 Collins Street, Docklands, VIC 3008
  4. The Herald Sun - HWT Tower, 40 City Road, Southbank, Melbourne, VIC 3007
  5. SEN - 473-479 Swan Street, Richmond VIC 3121
  6. Triple-M - 221 Nicholson Street, Brunswick East VIC 3057
  7. ASADA - PO Box 1744 FYSHWICK ACT 2609
  8. The Liberal Party - RG Menzies House, Cnr Blackall and Macquarie Streets, Barton ACT 2600
  9. The Labor Party - 5/9 Sydney Avenue, Barton ACT 2600
  10. Bigfooty - http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/
  11. ABC - 120-130 Southbank Blvd, Southbank
  12. Carlton Football Club - Ikon Park, Royal Parade, Carlton North VIC 3054
  13. Daily Telegraph - 2 Holt Street Surry Hills NSW 2010
  14. Australian Crime Commission - GPO Box 1936, CANBERRA CITY, ACT, 2601
  15. 3AW - Media House, Level 7, 655 Collins Street, Docklands, VIC 3008
  16. Bastion Group - 180 Commonwealth St, Surry Hills NSW 2010
  17. Talking Football - http://www.talkingfootball.net/
  18. Jack & Jill On Windy Hill Cafe -- 72 Napier Street, Essendon VIC 3040