[EM] New Hugo (Science Fiction Award) voting method

[Michael Rouse]

I'm not sure how many people here are fans of science fiction, but there 
was a big brouhaha at this years awards (which I'll ignore), and one of 
the results was the proposal of a new method of choosing winners:

*Short Title: E Pluribus Hugo (Out of the Many, a Hugo)*
Moved, to amend section 3.8 (Tallying of Nominations), section 3.9 
(Notification and Acceptance), and section 3.11 (Tallying of Votes) as 
follows:

Section 3.8: Tallying of Nominations.
3.8.1: Except as provided below, the final Award ballots shall list in 
each category the five eligible nomineesreceiving the most nominations. 
If there is a tie including fifth place, all the tied eligible nominees 
shall be listed.determined by the following multi-round process 
described in 3.8.8.
3.8.2: The Worldcon Committee shall determine the eligibility of 
nominees and assignment to the proper category of works nominated in 
more than one category.
3.8.3: Any nominations for “No Award” shall be disregarded.
3.8.4: If a nominee appears on a nomination ballot more than once in any 
one category, only one nomination shall be counted in that category.
3.8.5: No nominee shall appear on the final Award ballot if it received 
fewer nominations than five percent (5%) of the number of ballots 
listing one or more nominations in that category, except that the first 
three eligible nominees, including any ties, shall always be listed.
3.8.6: The Committee shall move a nomination from another category to 
the work’s default category only if the member has made fewer than five 
(5) nominations in the default category.
3.8.7: If a work receives a nomination in its default category, and if 
the Committee relocates the work under its authority under subsection 
3.2.9 or 3.2.10, the Committee shall count the nomination even if the 
member already has made five (5) nominations in the more-appropriate 
category.
/
3.8.8: The final Award ballots shall list in each category the eligible 
finalists as determined by successive rounds of a two-phase elimination 
process. In this process, each member gets a single nomination “point” 
for each category, and that point will be divided equally among their 
nominated works in that category.
3.8.8.1: Selection Phase: In each round, all the works having the least 
number of points will be selected for the Elimination Phase (3.8.8.2). 
If there is only one work with the least number of points, then all of 
the works with the second-least number of points will be also be 
selected for the Elimination Phase in addition to the lowest-point work.
3.8.8.2: Elimination Phase: Of the works identified in the Selection 
Phase, the one(s) that appear on the fewest number of nomination ballots 
will be removed from all nomination ballots for subsequent rounds as if 
they had never appeared on any ballots.
3.8.8.4: Ties: If two or more works are tied for appearing on the fewest 
number of nomination ballots, the tied work with the lowest point total 
will be eliminated. If there is a tie for appearing on the fewest number 
of nomination ballots as well as for lowest point total, then all 
members of that tie will be eliminated. Should they deem it necessary to 
do so in the future, the Hugo administrators are empowered to take 
further measures to break this type of tie, provided those measures are 
announced at the beginning of the nomination period for the Hugo Award.
3.8.8.5: If elimination would reduce the number of finalists to fewer 
than the minimum number, then instead none of the works from that round 
shall be eliminated, and all remaining works shall appear on the final 
ballot, extending it if necessary.
3.8.8.6: Subsequent rounds begin by reallocating points as follows: All 
works eliminated in previous rounds are removed from all nomination 
ballots and treated as if they had never appeared on any nomination 
ballot. Members’ points are then reallocated equally among their 
remaining nominated works, if any./

Section 3.9: Notification and Acceptance.
3.9.1 Worldcon Committees shall use reasonable efforts to notify 
thenominees/finalists/, or in the case of deceased or incapacitated 
persons, their heirs, assigns, or legal guardians, in each category 
prior to the release of such information. Eachnominee/finalist/shall be 
asked at that time to either accept or decline the nomination. Ifthe 
nominee/any finalist(s)/declines the nomination, 
thatnominee/finalist(s)/shall not appear on the final ballot./In this 
event, once all finalists have had the opportunity to decline, the 
nomination system shall be re-run as described in Section 3.8 with the 
declined nomination(s) removed from the nomination ballots on which they 
appeared. The eligible finalists from this re-run shall be merged with 
the remaining potential finalists from the original run. If this merge 
would result in more than the maximum number of finalists, then the 
ballot shall be extended to include the finalists from both the original 
and the re-run of the nomination system. This procedure shall also be 
used in the event that a finalist is deemed ineligible./

Section 3.11: Tallying of Votes.
3.11.4: The complete numerical vote totals, including all preliminary 
tallies for first, second, … places, shall be made public by the 
Worldcon Committee within ninety (90) days after the Worldcon.During the 
same period the nomination voting totals shall also be published, 
including in each category the vote counts for at least the fifteen 
highest vote-getters and any other candidate receiving a number of votes 
equal to at least five percent (5%) of the nomination ballots cast in 
that category, but not including any candidate receiving fewer than five 
votes./During the same period a record of all rounds of the selection 
process for each category shall also be published.
/


It still needs to be ratified at next year's Worldcon, but I was 
wondering about other's thoughts. Link, other info, and FAQ is here: 
http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/016262.html

Mike Rouse


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