I see the votes for site selection for Worldcon 2017 are out. If you have voting rights, and have no particular preference otherwise, could you vote for Helsinki, as I'd really like to go there! http://sasquan.org/site-selection/#rules
http://sasquan.org/site-selection/#rules
The online payment system (for site selection voting) isn't available yet.
ReplyDeleteBelieve me, as soon as it is, I'll be spreading the news far and wide!
prk.
People who are already supporting or attending members of Sasquan can vote already. Which I am and I'm sure others are.
ReplyDeleteOnly if you can post a US Cheque with your site selection ballot :(
ReplyDeleteThe overall process is:
1) Purchase an attending or supporting membership to Sasquan. This can be done now. This includes Hugo voting for this year, and Hugo nominating for next year.
2) Download and fill out the site selection ballot. This can be done now.
3) Either post the physical ballot back with site selection voting fee (US cheque), or (when online payment is available) pay online, write token number on site selection ballot, scan ballot and email back to Sasquan.
Note: Site Selection voting fee ($US40) gets you supporting membership to whichever convention wins in 2017 (at which stage you'll get to repeat the process to vote on site selection for 2019 (go Dublin!).
I'm confused as to how I've got a membership number then.
ReplyDeleteYou (presumably) have a Sasquan membership number (step 1 in the above). This is the stage I'm at, too.
ReplyDeleteIt's the Site Selection voting fee (step 3) that we can't do online yet.
What a pain.
ReplyDeleteIf I understand correctly (and I may be wrong) you pay a voting fee, which then gets converted into a supporting membership of the con if it wins? Separate to the Sasquan membership?
ReplyDeleteAnd voting has to be done via paper ballots (for auditing purposes)
ReplyDeleteMostly correct.
ReplyDeleteYou pay a voting fee, which is converted into a supporting member of whichever convention wins, irrespective of whether you voted for that convention or not.
It's also an optional preferential ballot, so you can number 1 - 4, or just 1 or anywhere in between.
Elaine Walker
ReplyDeleteYes, but you can scan and email the ballot, once a method of paying online is available.
At the other end, they'll print it out, verify payment matches, and then put it in with all the other ballots (printed or posted or handed in at Sasquan) for the counting.
mutters darkly about Site Selection voting fee (step 3) which just seems to have come up out of nowhere when I thought I was all set to go
ReplyDeleteThat's standard, I'm afraid; it's a supporting membership for the con, but at the time you get it, you don't know which city you're going to. Clear as mud? I did this last time Helsinki bid and found out if I went to the Worldcon, I would instead be visiting Spokane, Washington State....
ReplyDeleteMutter mutter
ReplyDeleteThis is what I was talking about the other day, Pamela Smith , it is most vexing.
ReplyDeleteOnline payment for the Advanced Supporting Membership (aka Site Selection Voting) Fee is now available.
ReplyDeleteThank you PRK
ReplyDeleteI followed this up with the Helsinki2017 people on Twitter and was told the same thing. You can end up with supporting membership for a city you don't want to go to.
ReplyDeletePamela Smith I don't really mind, that's fair enough, support Worldcon and all that, it's just that it wasn't clear (to me at least), first you gotta pay this, and oh then you gotta pay that, oh and yeah you gotta pay this too.
ReplyDeleteYeah, the Site Selection process isn't well known unless you've been involved in it before :/
ReplyDeleteIn terms of the supporting membership, I figure even if Helsinki doesn't win, I'll be able to vote in 2017 for 2019 (go Dublin!), plus get Hugo nominating & voting as well.
Yeah. Hope Helsinki gets it! I'll put my vote in, in the next couple of
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HI PRK. Can you please give me the link to where I can pay the Advanced Supporting Membership. I can't find it on the site. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteHi Pamela - it's at https://sasquan.swoc.us/sasquan/sitevote-pay.php
ReplyDeleteHere's hoping for Helsinki!
ReplyDeleteHmm getting a"HEL" stamp on the passport!
ReplyDeleteGetting any stamp on the passport. :-)
ReplyDeleteI've been there and I never got a stamp on the passport. Most disappointing but then I did come from Sweden. I was expecting border guards or immigration people or something when I got off the ferry but no! Didn't get any stamps in the passport while I was in Sweden either. Or Norway.
ReplyDeleteWhoooo Helsinki Whoooo!
ReplyDeleteSo excited!
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