Thanks. That’s lower than I’d have thought in relation to the roughly, let’s say, 1.723 Active members since November (rough upper limit of potential voters) -> just over 8% potential in practice voter participation.

It probably needs a bit of common brainstorming, but the desired effect would be to have local boards gain some visibility in the event (though laterally they already have some through some of the nominees).

Something along the like of best local board asset (within each local board) or best local board newbie/comeback. The idea would be to highlight those that contribute in a very meaningful manner to potentiate their local board through content, aid, knowledge or alike.

Since there are currently 22 local boards, I figure there won’t be 22 new subcategories (one per local board) under the Local Board Asset category. Bearing that in mind, and that some of the local boards are pretty much flat, perhaps the participating local boards have to have some requirements (i.e. number of active members, posts, minimum number of valid votes, and so forth).

Now it’s true that Merit Sources could have some kind advantage there as fillippone hinted, though it should not be a factor people should mindfully consider as a core aspect that defines an asset to their local board. If that’s a conceptual issue, just add "new" as a prefix to the category to delimit the scope of nominees to new accounts for the given year.