As usual on such subjects, you are making huge quantities of sense.
For one thing, the fewer paper ballots there are, the less trouble counting them is, so why bother eliminating them? And while computerization is oceans of help with the final ballots, as you note it doesn't make the nomination ballots much less work at all.
The root problem with the nomination deadline is that, no matter when you set it, voters will have to remember items that are a year or more old. There's no way jiggling with the deadline is going to fix this so long as the awards are annual. Attempts to try are like thinking that DST gives us more daylight. But then, there are people who seem to think it does.
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Date: 2012-03-22 05:40 am (UTC)For one thing, the fewer paper ballots there are, the less trouble counting them is, so why bother eliminating them? And while computerization is oceans of help with the final ballots, as you note it doesn't make the nomination ballots much less work at all.
The root problem with the nomination deadline is that, no matter when you set it, voters will have to remember items that are a year or more old. There's no way jiggling with the deadline is going to fix this so long as the awards are annual. Attempts to try are like thinking that DST gives us more daylight. But then, there are people who seem to think it does.