~5000, but only ~1000 of them ever used their right to vote. During last Council's election, only ~230 people voted.

This is one problem with current Karma system - it have TONS of people that are inactive for years, so system need much more effort to send all those mails. there were some ideas to add "karma decomposition", but due to Nokia's pulling out the plug, it was never realized. AFAIK, Texrat did some theoretical (as in ideas and proof of concept, not practical implementation in maemo.org) upgrades to karma system.

/Estel