Hey everyone! I'm Caleb, a passionate community member learning more and growing each day in the DotSama ecosystem. It's been an amazing ride so far and I have met a ton of incredible people already. Recently, I have started to be interested in learning more about governance, and over the past few days I have talked with a few community members about governance turnout reporting. 

I understand that an important goal for the Council, as well as the greater ecosystem, is to have a more decentralized governance structure and to encourage everyday users to participate. Recently, Gabriel started an amazing initiative of [rewarding voters and delegators with an NFT](https://kusama.polkassembly.io/treasury/135) which has already shown much success.

As he mentioned in his proposal, governance turnout reporting is typically in the **single-digit percent** or **sub-percent** range which, from an average voter such as myself, is quite discouraging. The community has noticed that the calculation of the turnout includes locked crowdloan tokens which are not available to be used for governance. This, of course, makes turnout appear to be less than it truly is. There are a couple points to consider and would be happy to hear more from the community on this, especially those with a more technical understanding of governance.

1. Is there a technical reason why crowdloaned tokens are unable to be used in governance?

2. If so, and this is difficult to change, it seems that the easiest solution would be to adjust the calculation for turnout to exclude crowdloaned tokens (which are on the order of millions). I imagine this would drastically improve the viewed percentage on .js

There have been other thoughts from the community on this that include an NFT that represents your crowdloaned tokens and could be used for governance voting, airdropped governance tokens that represent your crowdloaned tokens, and more. However, I think just adding in a step to the calculation to exclude crowdloaned tokens would be pretty straightforward and a step in the right direction. This will show a higher turnout which may help with the issue of voter apathy, even by a small margin. There are other issues with governance that are being tackled on a larger scale, but I hope we can spark more conversations on this front within the community. Thanks for reading, and I'm interested to hear what everyone thinks!

- Caleb is a community member in the DotSama ecosystem.
- He is interested in learning about governance and has been discussing governance turnout reporting with other community members.
- The goal is to have a more decentralized governance structure and encourage everyday users to participate.
- Caleb suggests adjusting the calculation for turnout to exclude crowdloaned tokens, which would make the turnout percentage appear higher.
- He hopes this will help with the issue of voter apathy.

#1394 Governance Turnout Reporting