Voting Process

We vote remotely.
We use Google Forms. You will get a link at least a few days before the voting starts.

For 2025 you have through November 15th to cast your votes.
That way I’ll have enough time to contact individuals if there are problems or if I have questions before the November meetup. It takes time to go through everything!

If there is a tie we will do a tie breaker at the November Meetup.

Votes will be weighted based on your attendance.
Your attendance is tracked by your RSVPs on Meetup, which I update for no-shows, etc. If you attended but forgot to RSVP I track that and have updated the record to include all your attendance. How many votes do I get? >>

0 votes: less than 4 meetups. No votes but can make suggestions for the list.
2 votes: 4-10 meetings
4 votes: 11-20
6 votes: 21-30
7 votes: 31-40
8 votes: 41-50
9 votes: 51-60
12 votes: greater than 60 meetings

An updated list of how many votes each member gets is posted in October of each year.
How many votes do I get? >>

Casting multiple votes for one title
You can use your allotted number of votes to vote for individual books but you can also use your votes to vote multiple times for the same book. If you really want a certain title to make it onto the list, you may choose to cast more than one vote for the same title. To do this, you will have to re-enter the system as many times as you want to vote for that specific title. (Sorry about this–it’s the only way to do it with this voting system online).

The books get ranked by number of votes.
If more than one book by the same author clears the first voting round, only the one with more votes gets into the final list.
A tie breaker round will be held at our November meetup if necessary.  You must be present at this meetup to vote in the tie breaker round.

When voting is done, we will have 24 titles, ranked in order of popularity.