I looked several times in several locations for several tens of minutes (aka a half hour) and did not see where the word "supporting member" appeared as a valid voter.
The Membership of WSFS shall consist of all people who have paid membership dues to the Committee of the current Worldcon.
Section 1.5: Memberships. 1.5.1: Each Worldcon shall offer supporting and attending memberships. 1.5.4: The rights of attending members of a Worldcon include the rights of supporting members plus the right of general attendance at said Worldcon and at the WSFS Business Meeting held thereat.
What this means is than if you want to take the vote away from supporting members, you'd have to redefine it in section 1.5, since an attending membership is defined relative to a supporting member.
Worldcons can offer other classes of memberships as well, and the voting rights there can differ, but the two classes of supporting and attending are guaranteed.
I expect most people will take their nomination list,....
Have you ever nominated/voted for the Hugo Awards yourself?
I don't expect many people to read/watch works released over six months ago purely to vote for an award.
In that case, why would the fact that most recent Worldcons have been able to put together the Hugo Voter Packet of nominated works be such a significant attraction to people joining? (And it is demonstratively increasing the number of supporting memberships being sold.)
You're already disenfranchising anyone who didn't pay at least $50 for a convention they might not even be attending seven whole months later.
Try looking at it not as a ticket to a convention. Consider it in terms of paying membership dues to an organization. To become a member of the World Science Fiction Society, you must pay the organization's membership dues (about $50). To attend the organization's annual convention, you must have that membership and pay the "convention supplement" (the difference between the supporting and attending memberships). This is very much like how many real-world associations work.
WSFS requires that you be a member of the association by a certain date in order to nominate in the association's award process.
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See the current WSFS Constitution. Here are the relevant sections:
What this means is than if you want to take the vote away from supporting members, you'd have to redefine it in section 1.5, since an attending membership is defined relative to a supporting member.
Worldcons can offer other classes of memberships as well, and the voting rights there can differ, but the two classes of supporting and attending are guaranteed.
Have you ever nominated/voted for the Hugo Awards yourself?
In that case, why would the fact that most recent Worldcons have been able to put together the Hugo Voter Packet of nominated works be such a significant attraction to people joining? (And it is demonstratively increasing the number of supporting memberships being sold.)
Try looking at it not as a ticket to a convention. Consider it in terms of paying membership dues to an organization. To become a member of the World Science Fiction Society, you must pay the organization's membership dues (about $50). To attend the organization's annual convention, you must have that membership and pay the "convention supplement" (the difference between the supporting and attending memberships). This is very much like how many real-world associations work.
WSFS requires that you be a member of the association by a certain date in order to nominate in the association's award process.