The voting for the 2017 Ursa Major Awards is closed, and this year’s voting statistics are in. 1,247 people requested a ballot. 882 actually voted. 250 of those waited until the final day to vote.
That isn’t very good. It’s really bad! [...] Furry fandom supposedly has hundreds of thousands of members and is growing. Theoretically the number of people who know about the Ursa Major Award is also growing each year. But that isn’t reflected in the number of voters each year. It’s been stagnant at 1,200 to 1,300, and took a sharp nosedive this year for reasons unknown.
I should probably have remembered this, considering I made several comments there, but four years is a long time!
I stumbled across this conversation on Dogpatch Press where Fred Patten himself raised concerns about voting:
I should probably have remembered this, considering I made several comments there, but four years is a long time!