RE: How to increase voter turnout
One thing that miight be done is for the officers of your club to put together a list of members and send each one of them a letter, post card, or note of some sort detailing the upcoming election(s) and whp the candidates are and urge each member to get off his duff and vote.
It may not have total effect but it should get more people involved.
Basically it is going to take a one on one approach with each member to get them out and voting.
Most of the members in my club never come to meetings or as far as that goes, to the field to fly their planes. I'm glad they continue to pay dues and all but it would be so much better if we had a larger turnout.
DeadStick aka JimRoss