Slightly beat out the number of votes for CSM6.

They seemed to do OK, and CSM8 has more diversity on it as well.

The story of this election seems to be Ripard Teg beating out Sort Dragon for one of the permanent seats (and Banlish, TEST's #1, not even making it). Turnout might be low but it looks like voting patterns are changing, possibly due to the new system. The day when 0.0 needs to combine into a 0.0 bloc instead of voting as coalitions might be coming sooner than a lot of people think.

Sort is an amazing FC and cat herder, a delight to fly with.

I must admit I do like the line up of CSM8, but it is far to top heavy with Null members for the majority to ever take it seriously.

If you have to even ask that, you really have no idea how most of the game views Null, do you?

If that were true then voter turnout for Null really stinks.

Which leafs straight back to why should the majority of the game care about a CSM controlled by Null, who although a minority, think they are better than everyone else?

And why should they care about being represented in something that does not represent them?

CCP should be the first interested to get a representative CSM, but they're OK with the CSM being as is and actually are very proud that now they represent better the dwindling minority who will rather use the elections than vote with their wallet/feet.

if u want to make voting lower next year, then keep hiding the results, its kinda embarresing they havent released them, when they said 27 th. atleast share the raw data, shouldnt be to hard

And as I said grow up

For the whole "how many hisec players are", I've said many times that what matters here is not what players say, but what they do.

And a massive majority logs in a character into highsec. Even if there were no hisec players and everyone was a nullsec player, hisec still would be the reason why 60% of all charatcters are logged in each hour and each day.