From:"Middlemiss, Perry" 


Here are the results of the 1997 DUFF (Down Under Fan Fund) race
which is sending a fan from North America to Australasia to attend the
Australian National Science Fiction Convention in Melbourne in September
1997.

First Place:
                     US     Aust    Total
Andy Hooper          22       12       34
Janice Murray        76       12       88
Joel Zakem           83        4       87
No Preference         3        0        3
Write-In              1        0        1

With Write-In Out. The write-in second preference was distributed to
Janice
Murray:
                      US     Aust    Total
Andy Hooper           22       12       34
Janice Murray         77       12       89
Joel Zakem            83        4       87
No Preference          3        0        3

With No Preference Now Out (no second preference) :

                       US     Aust    Total
Andy Hooper            22       12       34
Janice Murray          77       12       89
Joel Zakem             83        4       87

Andy Hooper is therefore eliminated on the third round. His second
preferences were distributed as follows:

                           US     Aust    Total
Janice Murray              17       10       27
Joel Zakem                  4        2        6
No second preference        1        0        1

The final tally is thus the following:

                       US     Aust    Total
Janice Murray          94       22      116
Joel Zakem             87        6       93
                     ----     ----    -----
                      181       28      209

We can therefore declare Janice Murray the winner of this year's DUFF
race.

Administrators:

USA - Pat and Roger Sims
Australasia - Perry Middlemiss.