The 2009/10 Europe to Australasia Guff Race Ballot

About GUFF

What is GUFF?

 GUFF was created in 1979. Known as the Get Up-and-over Fan Fund or the Going Under Fan Fund, depending on which direction it's running, GUFF exists to provide funds to enable well-known fans from Australasia and Europe to visit each other's national (or other) conventions and to get to know each other's fandoms better. GUFF, like other fan funds, exists solely through the support of fandom. The candidates for each trip are voted on by interested fans, and each vote is accompanied by a monetary donation. These votes, and the continuing generosity of fandom through auctions and other donations, are what make GUFF possible.

Who may vote?

Voting in the race to send a European fan to Aussiecon4, the 68th World Science Fiction Convention is open to anyone who was active in fandom prior to August 2008, and who contributes at least GBP5 or AUD10 (or the equivalent in other currencies) to the fund. Larger contributions are encouraged and will be gratefully accepted. Only one vote per person is allowed. You must sign or otherwise verify your ballot, but your vote will not be made public.

Voting Details. GUFF uses a preferential ballot system which guarantees automatic runoffs until a majority is obtained. You rank the candidates in order of your preference for them. If the leading first-place candidate does not have a majority of votes after the first round of counting, the first-place votes for the lowest-placed candidate are discarded, and the second-place votes on those ballots are counted as first-place votes for the candidates concerned. This process is repeated until one candidate has a majority of all the votes cast. Votes for second and third place candidates are therefore important, but you may not rank any candidate in more than one position on your ballot.

Hold Over Funds. This choice, like ‘No award’ in award balloting, gives you the chance to vote for no GUFF trip in 2010 if for any reason the candidates do not appeal. Hold over funds may be voted for in any position on the ballot.

No Preference. This choice is for voters who do not wish the GUFF trip to be held over, but who either cannot or prefer not to decide between the candidates. 

Candidates. Each candidate has posted a bond of GBP15; promised that barring force majeure they will travel to Aussiecon4 (http://www.aussiecon4.org.au/), if elected, and provided nominations and a short platform displayed here

You can vote by either downloading the pdf and sending it to one of the administrators listed or completing the online form below.

Name:

Address:

 Email Address:

Associated is as a contribution to GUFF Via (your vote will not be counted until your donation arrives)
Shields Spencer Hold Over Funds No Preference

Please do not repeat any numbers; please use only the numbers 1 to 4; you do not need to number all options.

 If you think your name may not be known to the administrators then, to ensure that your vote qualifies to be counted, please give in the space below the name and address of an active fan (not a fan group, a candidate or one of their nominators) to whom you are known and who is known to (one of) the administrators.


The paypal button below will send a donation to Guff via Ang Rosin