Draft 2015 AIS ballot available

[Gerry Snyder <7e2de1ee1@rewrite.aisboard.org>]

John Jones has posted a draft version of the 2015 AIS awards ballot to 
the AIS web site. It is available at:

http://irises.org/pdf/AIS2015_Draft_Ballot.pdf

It is being made available so that hybridizers, judges, and any other 
interested parties can check it for errors. Many steps go into the 
preparation of the ballot, and the more eyes that look it over the better.

It is interesting that one of the two recent minor changes to the Awards 
rules has affected this ballot. Previously the rules stated that there 
were to be  minimum of two votes and two winners in each HM and AM 
class, so that if there were only two candidates in a class there would 
no voting that year, and both candidates would be held over until there 
were at least three. Now the rule states that if there are only two 
candidates there will be one vote and one winner. This is the case for 
AB HM in the 2015 ballot.

(Just for completeness, the other change is that there is no longer a 
rule stating that there must be at least three candidates in each class 
on the ballot for the Dykes Medal.)

Note that these awards are voted by accredited AIS judges and not the 
full AIS membership or the general public. Also, only the official 
ballot, which is mailed to the judges, can be used for voting, since 
there may be changes in case omissions or other errors are found.

Please let me know if you find any problems with the draft ballot.


Gerry Snyder
AIS Awards Chair

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