EVE's 4th CSM election results are in
by James Egan 
Dec 2nd 2009 at 5:00PM
Filed under: Sci-fi, EVE Online, Culture, Events, in-game, Game mechanics, MMO industry, Politics
Election results for EVE Online's 4th Council of Stellar Management (CSM) are in. The CSM are players elected by the game's subscribers, given the responsibility of representing the collective interests of the playerbase to EVE Online's developer CCP Games. The hope is that future game changes and features will be in keeping with how the subscribers like to play EVE.
The announcement from EVE developer CCP Xhagen earlier today lists the election results by real name, character name, location and number of votes:
- Tomas Ljumovic, "ElvenLord", Serbia, 1553 votes (Chairman)
- Greg Russo, "Alekseyev Karrde", United States, 1234 votes
- John Zastrow, "Zastrow", United States, 1233 votes
- Jason Renouf, "TeaDaze", Guernsey, 1229 votes
- Asher Dratel, "Mrs Trzzbk", United States, 1077 votes
- Andrey Antonov, "Korvin", Russia, 1023 votes
- Denis Descheneaux, "Z0D", United Kingdom, 909 votes
- Jaime Tiampo, "Song Li", Canada, 745 votes
- Tim Heusschen, "Sokratesz", Netherlands, 744 votes
Xhagen breaks down the election demographics and statistics, noting that 7.36% of the playerbase voted. Of that group, 2.97% (629 voters) only voted to select "abstain". He also looks at the voters in terms of account (character) age and nationality and how this relates to the game's playerbase as a whole. If you're interested in reading more on the election (or democratic processes in virtual worlds in general), you can check out the full results in CCP Xhagen's announcement and player response to those results in a related forum thread.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Lateris said on 5:15PM 12-02-2009
Is this the most US electives we have had?
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riverini said on 6:07PM 12-02-2009
Well i did not voted... the reason was that i find somewhat annoying to go to the eve site, re-log then see the candidates.
if they put this stuff as an ingame feature i would probably have voted...
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Tyranor said on 5:59PM 12-02-2009
One day, I'll understand why the turnout is so stratospherically crap time and time again.
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GaaaaaH said on 10:17PM 12-02-2009
Because its not compulsory? Doesn't the US have the same thing at election time?
Graill said on 6:07PM 12-02-2009
7 percent? More like 90 percent turnout, the other ten percent are rotating trials that simply dont care.
You CCP folks do try to spin it.
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Rambie said on 6:42PM 12-02-2009
While you however aren't trying to spin anything?
Tyranor said on 4:15AM 12-03-2009
Not at all! Even in the 2004 presidential elections, turnout was 57%. This is a vote you can make without even going outside for god's sake, turnout really shouldn't be this low...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_the_United_States_presidential_elections
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ian.75 said on 4:25AM 12-03-2009
How did this thread end up on RL US voter turn out? What about the turn out in the local elections of Stoney Middleton in 1974? That's what I want to know.
What I think would be good in future is if each candidate did a short election broadcast, talking to a camera, saying why we should vote for them; and maybe some televised debates so we can see how well they can make their case.
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rawk1977 said on 10:31AM 12-03-2009
Podcasts had these kind of debates :)
New media is new....
ariolander said on 1:26AM 12-04-2009
I wonder how many of those votes came from the alliance voting blocs. I read all their platforms but the only one I liked was TeaDaze. Sadly forgot to vote because I am a terrible person.
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Layla said on 6:47AM 12-04-2009
I did vote but I found it very difficult to find information about all the candidates, who they were and what they stood for. I think CCP could help with this by allowing more information about the candidates on the voting pages. I also think it is time the candidates started to form "parties" around the same generic issues.
More information and btter tools to get at it. That would improve the vote.
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