52% have spoken

[Fransisco]

http://www.siemenssays.com/?p=13145#more-13145

Alex Blinkley makes a good observation and asks a good question.

"So what does it say when only 52% of western farmers who were eligible to vote in the recent election for Canadian Wheat Board directors bothered to return the ballots mailed to them? The CWB should be concerned about the impact on its credibility when nearly half the eligible farmers don’t vote."

He makes a good point, this whole voting on how your neighbors grain should be sold process is a creation of the wheat board. Half the eligible farmers either don't believe in it or don't care.

[cchurch]

Same goes for Harper government only 57% voted in last Federal Election. Therefore no one wants Harper.

Same goes for Alberta Government low voter turnout. Therefore no-one wants them.

[bgmb]

It says most people don't think the CWB is a big issue.

But you'd never know it on this site.

haha

[mustardman]

Sadly the same can be said for our last federal election. Being Able to vote is often taken for granted.

[Fransisco]

Let's think about this another way

http://www.cwbelection.com/pdf/2008_final_results_2.pdf

Out of the 31,244 eligible votes single deskers got 8018 or 25.6% of them.

http://www.cwbelection.com/pdf/2008_final_results.pdf

I realize that its up to the people who actually bother to vote who get the final say but as far as popular support for the Monopoly goes it's pretty pathetic. It's a big fish in a small pond and that pond is drying up.

[Fransisco]

Are comparisons to government valid in all of this? I'm not so sure.

The wheat board is not supposed to be a government, it's supposed to be a business. When half the people in the business, half the supposed shareholders if you will, don't care how or who its run by, it should cause those at the top some concern.

[Fransisco]

Half don't care, out of the other half its pretty much an even split.

[furrowtickler]

Should the public be forced to vote in elections? It is sad to see that just over 50% canadians vote on anything in a democracy that the rest of the world wishes they had.

[FarmRanger]

How many just never received their ballot and thought that they weren't in a jurisdiction having an election?

[LWeber]

2006 results:

Voter turnout was 51.5 per cent. Approximately 31,000 producers in total were eligible to vote

http://www.cwb.ca/en/newsroom/releases/2006/121106.jsp