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<blockquote data-quote="EKovarr" data-source="post: 9267871" data-attributes="member: 7044826"><p>It was excellent writing, insinuating something wrong with those votes, setting readers up with the feeling that no votes can be trusted. </p><p></p><p>Slight problem: they were setting you up with something that isn't true. The truth is pretty boring: the ballot wasn't translated into Chinese perfectly; my recollection is that it said address, not home address. Physical addresses are the norm here, there it's more often an email address. The result using their email address on the ballot. The "consternation" was someone panicking; he was one of the few who saw the votes rising; the team doing research, sorting out what was going on, and making the call that they were valid; and people, especially the losers, flatly disbelieving that China could have gotten that many votes and it turned into "They stole our vote!"</p><p></p><p>And wouldn't listen to the simple fact is that China has more fans per capita that any other country. They really wanted a chance that Worldcon, the <em>World Science Fiction Convention</em>, the best and most important of convention would be in their country. They'd never get to go otherwise and here they could meet and talk with people from all over the world. Mutually share cultures and how they impacted writing, differences in the publishing world, and so much more. And all these fans! So word spread and Chinese fans voted.</p><p></p><p>Sorry for the length, it's just that facts don't have any chance against insinuations and there's no way to change public opinion. Now and then I try anyway.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EKovarr, post: 9267871, member: 7044826"] It was excellent writing, insinuating something wrong with those votes, setting readers up with the feeling that no votes can be trusted. Slight problem: they were setting you up with something that isn't true. The truth is pretty boring: the ballot wasn't translated into Chinese perfectly; my recollection is that it said address, not home address. Physical addresses are the norm here, there it's more often an email address. The result using their email address on the ballot. The "consternation" was someone panicking; he was one of the few who saw the votes rising; the team doing research, sorting out what was going on, and making the call that they were valid; and people, especially the losers, flatly disbelieving that China could have gotten that many votes and it turned into "They stole our vote!" And wouldn't listen to the simple fact is that China has more fans per capita that any other country. They really wanted a chance that Worldcon, the [I]World Science Fiction Convention[/I], the best and most important of convention would be in their country. They'd never get to go otherwise and here they could meet and talk with people from all over the world. Mutually share cultures and how they impacted writing, differences in the publishing world, and so much more. And all these fans! So word spread and Chinese fans voted. Sorry for the length, it's just that facts don't have any chance against insinuations and there's no way to change public opinion. Now and then I try anyway. [/QUOTE]
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