1137 users voted so far in 2014 election, which is as many as in all (4) previous elections combined.

@skullpatrol I see your video and raise this random webcomic (+ next 2 pages). (Warning: Those specific pages are mostly work-safe; most of the comic is very definitely not.)

@IlmariKaronen :D nice skull

@dustin You'd have to come up with a definition of "active" first. Let's say... posted in the last 30 days, would that be reasonable?

@Behaviour sounds good to me. Maybe posted once a month for the last 6 months would be better?? Many people post once and run.

@Behaviour including meta and comments. Maybe there should be two criteria. (1) activity in the short term (2) activity in the long term. For instance, 2 post, comment, meta a week for a month or 1 post, comment, meta once every month for 6 months. If you meet any of two, you are active.

So much for extrapolation: 1250 users voted already in this election.

I find it very good we have more voters in this election!

I'm not so sure. Was it very good to have more moderator nominations in this election?

A whole lot of people nominated themselves while having very little awareness of what the site is. It's quite possible many voted similarly.

@Behaviour yes I think it was good in the end that we had those nominations (early on), as it set some discussions in motion.

Maybe some users will vote in a completely careless way. But also, it is not that hard or time consuming to get some impression of the candidates and to vote accordingly.

The number of voters is still pretty small. There are more enthusiast badges than votes ever cast; this is a bit strange.

There were many users who became interested in the site for a short period of time, and then moved on. If their period of activity is between two elections, they don't vote.

I still feel that the number of voters is really not high relative to the size of the site. Of course better informed voters are always better. But then one should also not exaggerate the complexity of the matter.

So in the primaries there were likely around 1000 voters. Did they vote in some strangel way. It did not seem so to me.

Anyway that recent meta thread on the subject seems in bad faith to me.

I am sufficiently familiar with Dilaton. :) No, I saw nothing strange in the primary. The votes are consistent with the voters recognizing a user who left some helpful answers or comments, and upvoting them.

There is some correlation with point and main activity. But it is not only that.

And I think this is rather reasonable.

There are 11377 users with reputation 150+. Of them, 9881 have visited meta (i.e., have an account there). Of them, 3342 have Supporter badge on meta. And only 1250 have Quorum (1 meta post with score 2 or more).

In any event, I'm not worried about the election anymore; what's done is done, the results (in all likelihood) are already determined as we speak. Congratulations to the 10 finalists on getting well-deserved SE swag.

Swag but don't brag.