Facebook’s last user vote has closed, once again with a minuscule turnout compared to the size of the social network in general according to its site governance page. Only 668,872 votes were cast out of the billion active users for a turnout of 0.067 percent. Facebook is now free to enact its new privacy policies without concern for the vote results. The new policy will, among other things, remove the user vote as a necessary step in policy changes.

Facebook instituted a rule that would push any policy changes that received more than 7,000 comments to a sitewide vote back in April 2009, nearly four years ago. The most recent version of the company’s statement of rights and responsibilities as well as the data use policy remove the need for that step. It also frees Facebook from having to keep data stored in the US and Europe separate. Likewise, Facebook will no longer have to store its Instagram data separately.

An overwhelming percentage of users voted against the policy changes: 88 percent, or 589,141 votes. But at only 0.067 percent of Facebook’s populace, the turnout is nowhere near the required 30 percent to make the results binding.

Between the three votes, Facebook Nation has a paltry average turnout of 0.145 percent. Most of that weight comes from the inaugural vote that instituted the voting policy and was heavily publicized by Facebook itself (the second vote had the worst turnout, at 0.038 percent). You're more likely to have been abducted by aliens than have ever voted in Facebook poll, according to this extremely dubious website. The results are still subject to an outside audit, but provided there aren’t some 299 million digital ballots stuffed in a virtual closet, user votes at Facebook are over for good. Worst democracy ever? Maybe.