Why are the whales not voting? They have more than enough EOS to reach 15%. They should be fairly knowledgeable if they were willing to bet that amount of cash on an unproven system...
I look forward to seeing how EOS is developed. Thanks for sharing.
Most of the whale wallets are exchanges and I'm guessing they want to avoid conflict of interest issues, but I don't know. Bitfinex is currently asking its account owners for permission to vote their stakes so they alone could push it over.