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Record Low Turnout in Debian Leadership Election

Posted by samzenpus on from the rock-the-vote dept.

daria42 writes "A record low voter turnout - highlighted by the fact that two-thirds of the candidates have not yet cast their ballot - is marring the Debian Project's ongoing elections for the Debian Project Leader position. Project secretary Manoj Srivastava said yesterday: "At the time of writing, half an hour into the second week of the vote, we have the lowest participation ever in a Debian project leader election seen so far"."

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  1. Maybe its debian by Wizy · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I think it has something to do with the fact that its debian. A lot of the debian users I know have switched to other systems in the last year or so. A lot of them are trying gentoo lately. I have no numbers to back any of that up, just an observation.