Hugo voting deadline change

[psocoptera]

An extra week has fallen out of the sky! Their tweet:

"Hugo voting extension: We are sorry for the delay in opening online Hugo Voting. It should be open no later than Wednesday 8 July. Therefore, we are extending the voting deadline to Wednesday, 22 July 2020 at 23:59 PDT (UTC-7)/Thursday, 23 July 2020 at 18:59 NZST (UTC+12)."

It's not really clear to me *why* they're having these delays - does every Worldcon have to completely recode the voting software? Can't they just get it from the previous Worldcon? But I certainly don't object to that extra week to read!

Comments

[glassonion]

I object to the extra week. Having setup my schedule around when they told me the deadline was, i want to be done now. I've decided i'm sticking with my previous plan about how far down the ballot to get, and if i don't finish that plan by the 15th, We'll See, but i'm not adding more things to it.