Who would have the authority to modify the separate Hugo Rules (currently Article III of the Constitution)?
Worldcons are already required to distribute Article III with the ballot to their members. They do this by including it in the same progress report as the ballot.
There are (mostly) no Hugo Rules that aren't in Article III. (There's stuff about what a membership gets you elsewhere, but that's not substantive to the rules about eligibility for the Award itself.) So even if you split Article III out separately, you're still left with a several pages of rules that, to be comprehensive, would have to be printed inside the ballot, I think.
This particular issue is causing heartburn because it's brand new. The definition of "professional" only was adopted last year, and this is the first Hugo Awards conducted under it. Future Administrators will have to learn from this and try to communicate the matter better to people. And that doesn't include (IMO) putting every word of Article III on the ballot, but instead doing a better job of saying, "these are the basic rules, but if there are things you don't understand, look [here] for more information and official rules."
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Worldcons are already required to distribute Article III with the ballot to their members. They do this by including it in the same progress report as the ballot.
There are (mostly) no Hugo Rules that aren't in Article III. (There's stuff about what a membership gets you elsewhere, but that's not substantive to the rules about eligibility for the Award itself.) So even if you split Article III out separately, you're still left with a several pages of rules that, to be comprehensive, would have to be printed inside the ballot, I think.
This particular issue is causing heartburn because it's brand new. The definition of "professional" only was adopted last year, and this is the first Hugo Awards conducted under it. Future Administrators will have to learn from this and try to communicate the matter better to people. And that doesn't include (IMO) putting every word of Article III on the ballot, but instead doing a better job of saying, "these are the basic rules, but if there are things you don't understand, look [here] for more information and official rules."