{"id":961,"date":"2015-05-04T22:28:55","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T22:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=961"},"modified":"2017-07-19T16:46:24","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T16:46:24","slug":"sasquan-opens-hugo-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2015\/05\/04\/sasquan-opens-hugo-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Sasquan Opens Hugo Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who are already members of worldcon, Sasquan has opened Hugo voting.  With the electronic ballot, you can go and post some preferences and votes now, then return a day later, or a week later, or a month later, and change them, or add some more rankings.  Your vote does not get counted until balloting closes.  <\/p>\n<p>The ballot is here: <a href=\"http:\/\/sasquan.org\/hugo-awards\/voting\/\">http:\/\/sasquan.org\/hugo-awards\/voting\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have not voted the Hugo Awards before, please note that it is an &#8220;Australian ballot,&#8221; a preferential system whereby one ranks the nominees.  You don&#8217;t just vote for one.  You can rank NO AWARD as if it were any other finalist; ahead of some nominees, behind others.<\/p>\n<p>(Which is the way I believe one should use NO AWARD.  As I have stated previously, I am opposed to the nuclear option of just blindly voting NO AWARD in every category).<\/p>\n<p>Of course, you need to member to vote.  Supporting Memberships will cost you $40.  You can sign up to buy one at https:\/\/sasquan.swoc.us\/sasquan\/reg.php<\/p>\n<p>In addition to voting privileges, a Supporting Membership will get you the convention&#8217;s program book (usually a handsome item, though it varies from year to year) and other publications. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who are already members of worldcon, Sasquan has opened Hugo voting. With the electronic ballot, you can go and post some preferences and votes now, then return a day later, or a week later, or a month later, and change them, or add some more rankings. Your vote does not get counted until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39,40],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/961\/revisions\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}