Online Hugo and Campbell Award Ballot
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Only attending or supporting members of Chicon 2000 may use this electronic ballot to cast a valid Hugo vote. If you are not a Chicon 2000 member, please print the PDF version of the ballot. Fill out the membership application information and mail the form to the Hugo P.O. Box listed on the form. Please visit Registration Page for more information on becoming an attending or supporting member of Chicon 2000.
If you have moved (and have not notified Chicon of your new address), enter your old address in the form and note your new address in the comment box at the end of the form below.
Article III of the Constitution of the World Science Fiction Society covers the nominating, voting and awarding procedures for the Hugo Awards. The current version of Article III can be found here.
Upon submission of your ballot, you should receive a confirming email. If you do not, mail hugos@chicon.org to enquire about your ballot.
If you decide not to vote in a given category, leave it blank. Note that "No Award" is a vote that none of the nominees should be given the award in question, not an abstention.
When the ballots are counted, all the first place choices will be tabulated. If no nominee has received a majority of first place votes, the nominee with the fewest first place votes will be eliminated. If there are second place nominations on any of the eliminated nominee's ballots, they are counted as first place nominations for the remaining nominees. This process of elimination will continue until one nominee receives a majority of the votes, at which point it becomes the winner (unless the votes are outnumbered by "No Award" votes under specific conditions described in Section 3.11.2 of the WSFS Constitution).
A Few Tips That May Help You in Voting
1. Keep in mind that second place and further preference votes play no part in the voting process unless your first choice is eliminated. This is not a point system where many second choice votes can overwhelm a few first choice votes.
2. We suggest that after selecting your first choice, you proceed by imagining that it has disappeared from the ballot, and placing your second place (2) by the remaining nominee you most prefer, and so on. This mimics the way the ballots are actually counted. Thus -- even if your heart is set on one nominee -- don't hesitate to give second place (2) and lower (3, 4, or 5) rankings to other nominees you also consider worthy of the award.
3. If your top choices are eliminated, your lower preferences could be the tiebreaker between the remaining nominees -- so choose all your preferences carefully! No matter how much you dislike a nominee, if you rank it, the vote will be counted if all of your other choices are eliminated. You should not rank a particular nominee at all if you feel that it should not receive an award under any circumstances.
The Nominees
A total of 427 Hugo nomination forms were submitted (130 on-line electronic forms). Eighty-one Aussiecon Three members submitted nominations. Twenty nomination forms were eliminated because the person had joined Chicon 2000 after the January 31, 2000 deadline or was not a valid supporting or attending member of Aussiecon Three or Chicon 2000. The Novelette category has six nominees due to a tie for fifth place.
A list of nominees, with hyperlinks to online resources, is available. Questions may be addressed to hugos@chicon.org. Additional information will be posted on the Hugo Awards page.
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