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From: Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: A Cantankerous Curmudgeon Ponders ...
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 17:42:20 -0500
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On 1/20/25 12:50 PM, Robert Woodward wrote:
> In article <vmlgrt$34k05$2@dont-email.me>,
>   Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 1/17/25 1:04 AM, Robert Woodward wrote:
>>> Several weeks from now, I will be filling out a nomination ballot for
>>> the 2025 Worldcon. I will be doing this with the knowledge that there
>>> will be a very good chance that none of my entries in the 4 fiction
>>> categories will make the final ballot (and, of course, there is a very
>>> good chance that I will have not read any of the 24 titles in the four
>>> fiction categories on the final ballot).
>>>
>>
>> Just curious... which parts are you pondering? What to nominate? Whether
>> to nominate? Other?
> 
> Both what and whether (I will most likely skip the drama and fan
> categories entirely). I am also pondering on what to do with the final
> ballot. Do I rank "No Award" over every fiction title that was both not
> complete in the voting package or was not readily available to me (I
> have already read it, have it but had not read yet, or was available at
> no cost somewhere)?
> 

Do what you feel most comfortable with of course. For me (only!), I 
would only feel comfortable ranking "No Award" over stuff I'd actually 
read, because to me (only!), putting "No Award" above something says 
that the stuff below it was unworthy of winning.

I've never voted - do you have to rank everything that is nominated?
Tony