Sorry, I added a link to an article you'd cited, which I think got me marked as spam. I will post without the link, in case that eliminates the problem. Sorry, was not intending to "spam" your account! -mst

What's a puppy slate? I read through jedediah's entries but could not figure it out. I did read about how they tally votes / No Award. I am interested but have only a cursory knowledge of the Hugos.

EDIT: got more caught up on LJ and read through the E-Pluribus-Hugo faq you cited, which helps to clarify things some. So I assume a "slate" is a fixed set of things down the line that people with a specific agenda come in and vote for?