{"id":405,"date":"2002-04-22T09:10:48","date_gmt":"2002-04-22T16:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/04\/22\/405.html"},"modified":"2002-04-22T09:10:48","modified_gmt":"2002-04-22T16:10:48","slug":"hugo-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/04\/22\/hugo-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugo voting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It may be instructive for those who haven't closely examined Hugo voting before to take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netaxs.com\/~phil2001\/hugos\/2001winners.html\">last year's results<\/a>, which I think are fairly typical.  That page provides links to the voting details in each category.  In most categories last year, the instant-runoff voting system eventually resulted in the winner being the nominee that got the most first-place votes from the start, but in the case of the related-book category, the nominee that won started out in second place in the first round of the IRV.  Note that in no category did a nominee achieve the majority of votes on the first round.<\/p>\n<p>At some point I'll dig up and post a link to that page that shows how IRV works using Muppets; it's a pretty good example.  In the meantime, I'll just note some numbers:<\/p>\n<p>In each category of last year's Hugo voting, not counting the Campbells (where numbers were significantly lower), it took anywhere from about 80 to about 130 first-place votes to survive the first round of the instant runoff.  The winning nominee in each category started out with between 160 and 370 first-place votes (Novel and Dramatic Presentation being at the high end, of course; Dramatic Presentation had the most voters, with 972 ballots cast).<\/p>\n<p>I'm guessing that voter turnout will be a bit higher this year (based solely on the fact that there were more nominating ballots than usual).<\/p>\n<p>When the subject of Hugos came up last night, there was a great deal of confusion.  Two people present never received nominating ballots, and had come to a variety of erroneous conclusions based on that fact, about who can and can't vote.  If you have any doubts at all, I urge you to go to the official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conjose.org\/wsfs\/wsfs_hugo.html\">ConJos&eacute; Hugo page<\/a> and read all about it.  The short version is that if you were a member of last year's Millennium PhilCon, or if you are a member of this year's ConJos&eacute;, you can vote in the Hugos.  Voting deadline is July 31.  (I think that you can become a member and vote at the same time, anytime up to 7\/31.)  I'm sure that all of the short fiction will be online shortly.  Go forth and vote!<\/p>\n<p>At some point I'll be posting some info about the tricky bits of IRV, such as when it's a good idea to leave works off of the ballot entirely rather than putting them in fifth place.  But not today.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may be instructive for those who haven&#8217;t closely examined Hugo voting before to take a look at last year&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}