I made a boardroom telephone conferencing system using 8 electret mics connected in parallel. It worked pretty well but picked up a fair amount of background sounds and echoes. The Jfet inside each electret mic is normally powered through a 10k resistor so the resistor I used had a resistance low enough (1.2k) to power all the mics.
Another boardroom telephone conferencing system I built used many electret mics and a mic mixer that switched on only the one mic that had the highest sound level and it worked very well.