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  1. 1: Administrator workload: There were 3 mail in nominating ballots this year. Compared to the workload of writing and validating the program to do EPH, writing something that can pick out the top 20 from emailed in ballots is child’s play.

    2: If something is left off the long form ballot it was, at best number 21 in nominations. It didn’t even rise to the state of being a meaningless blip in the current nomination process. Their moral claim on the time of the Administrators is essentially null. The point of extending it to 20 is that any problems at the margins are with works that are their by charity, not by “right”.

    In short, the major failure is the assumption that, with 20 nominees on the long form, the administrators need to get everything “completely perfect”. As I said in my post, they don’t.

    3AS for “implying bad faith without proof”: I’ll quote from kjn from just up the thread here: “At least for me, a campaign to get a specific author or work onto the ballot is far less problematic than a whole slate.”

    I’m not “implying” bad faith, I’m reading what people are saying and responding to it. There are only two differences between what the Puppies did this year, and what others have done in previous years (see the 19 Joel Rosenberg “bullet voters” from 1984 for, again, an example from this very post) are
    1: The Puppies did everything out in the open
    2: The Puppies were more successful than anyone else has been.

    I don’t find either of those characteristics reprehensible. If what the Puppies did was “gaming the system”, then so is every other campaign, done on the sly or not. You want to make it impossible for anyone to game the system? Great! Two rounds of voting will do that.

    You want to block what the Puppies did, but allow all the other forms of campaigning? Well, that’s what EPH and all its variants do. If you favor that over dual round, I’m going to judge you by your actions, and their perfectly predictable results. Esp. given the large number of people who’ve stated they have a problem with the Puppies, but not all the other campaigning

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