Just goes to show you how a cancer grows. The folks close to the cancerous Local listen to a little nonsense and no one really votes and the Supplement almost goes down. Must have been like a 30% turnout.
What was the national average voter turn out for the first contract offer last time?
Those "cancerous Local" turnout numbers aren't exclusive to them, nor are they far off what I remember as par.
It's nationwide problem.
My Local voted no last time, at 92%, with half of the eligible ballots returned.
If I remember correctly, both of those statistics put us at the top of their respective lists.
I'm thinking you have hit on a valid issue, but are isolating the wrong variables.