The Chengdu Worldcon is now accepting 2025 Worldcon Site Selection ballots from those who hold WSFS memberships and have purchased 2025 voting rights through their official website.
Full instructions can be found on the 2025 Site Selection web page. Eligible voters using the PDF form (download it here) can vote by email or paper mail.
The committee says this is how the ballots will be handled:
Eligible members can send your completed electronic ballots in PDF format to the email address of the 2025 Site Selection Administrator ([email protected]) before October 7, 2023, 8 am China Standard Time (CST, UTC+8)/October 6, 2023, 5 pm Pacific Standard Time (PST, UTC-7).All the ballots will be printed, folded, sealed, and brought to the convention venue for counting by the Administrator. Members can also vote by mailing your completed paper ballots to the provided address before October 6, 2023, China Standard Time (CST, UTC +8).
Members can also vote in person at the convention:
On-site voting will take place during the 2023 Chengdu Worldcon, from October 18 to October 20, 2023. Eligible members can visit the “Site Selection Voting” booth at the convention, where the staff will verify your membership information. Then members can purchase voting rights by credit cards, WeChat or Alipay, and proceed to cast the votes. If you are unable to attend the convention in person, you can also entrust the ballot to the designated attendee to vote on your behalf.
The only bid on the ballot is for Seattle, Washington (USA). Write-ins are also allowed. In order to win, a write-in bid must file the constitutionally-required paperwork with Chengdu Worldcon before the close of voting.
ONLINE Q&A SESSION. There will be an online Question & Answer session with members of the Seattle in 2025 Bid on Saturday, August 26 at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time. Details on how to join the online session will be sent out closer to the date. The session will be recorded and put on the Chengdu website, if you can’t make it live.
If you have questions you would like the moderator to ask the Bid, please send them to Helen Montgomery, the Site Selection Administrator: [email protected]
Below are the instructional graphics from the Chengdu Worldcon website.
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As a Seattle resident, I am of course biased; but PLEASE if a con member, vote FOR Seattle. We have been trying to get the WorldCon to be held in Seattle since efforts started in 1981, 20 years after the first Seattle WorldCon. We did have a 2015 Spokane, WA WorldCon-Sasquan, but only as a plan b proxy because of politics of hotel/convention center exec opposition to SF cons; which is now retired, gone from this decision power. The WA convention center has a new expansion- Summit, which is almost perfectly suited to holding a WorldCon. Check out the bid website for details. https://www.seattlein2025.org/ Additionally September will be a perfect time to presupport and lock in low con going costs. We are deep in concomm staff experience having staffed NorwesCon since the late 1970s. The warefront tourist area-Pike Place Farmer’s Market, etc. is almost finished in post Viaduct tear down rebuilds, and within 4 blocks of Summit are several world class hotels and restaurants. Come and have a great SFnal weekend.
@Mike Glyer:
A new message about worldcon81 has sent to your email address, sorry for using the reply but I hope you can receive the email and reply as soon as possible.
In addition, I am willing to offer the translation of the news I mentioned in the email. I am working on it——it is too long.
The ONLY way to pay is with a token from Chengdu. If I ever got the login links, perhaps I could do this. They’re not in my inbox, and they’re not in my spam filter.
I will be emailing Seattle and asking them if I can send a check. I have been unable to log into the Chengdu page. Also I trust the USPS and whoever is receiving checks in Seattle much more than the people running the con (not the fans but the people who are actually putting this thing on)
@Linda Robinett please let us know if you get an answer about checks. I’m not receiving any communications from Chengdu, so I’m not confident that I can vote for site selection any other way than via snail mail.