Eligibility To Vote

Only attending and supporting members of ConJosé are eligible to vote. You must include your name, address, membership number (if known), and Hugo PIN.

If you are not already a ConJosé member, you must purchase a membership before voting online. For details click here. Alternatively you may download and print the paper ballot and send your membership fee to us along with your vote.

Deadline

We must receive your ballot by July 31, 2002 for it to be counted.

How to Vote

This ballot uses a modified version of the Alternate Vote System, sometimes known as the Australian Ballot or the Instant Runoff Ballot. To vote, mark your choices in each category in order of preference: "1" for first place, "2" for second place, and so on. You are not required to rank all the nominees in any category, and we recommend that you not vote in any category in which you are not familiar with a majority of the nominees. If you decide not to vote in a given category, leave it blank. Note that "No Award" is not an abstention, but a vote that none of the nominees should receive the award in question. When the ballots are counted, all the first place choices will be tabulated. If no nominee has received more than half of the votes, the nominee with the fewest first-place votes will be eliminated, and its votes transferred to the nominees marked "2" on those ballots. This process of elimination will continue until one nominee receives more than half 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 2.9.3 of the WSFS Constitution, in ConJosé Progress Report Three).

A few tips may help you in voting:

1. Please keep in mind that second and further preferences play no part in the voting unless and until your first choice is eliminated. This is not a point system where many voters' second choices can overwhelm a few voters' first choice. We suggest that after marking your first choice, you proceed by imagining that it has disappeared from the ballot, and placing your "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 "2" (and higher) rankings to other nominees you also consider worthy of the award.

2. Nevertheless, if your top choices are eliminated early, 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 previous choices are eliminated. We recommend that you not rank a nominee that you do not consider worthy of the award. In this way, you can be sure of casting your vote against it in all circumstances.

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