WHAT IS GUFF? The Get Up-and-over Fan Fund (known in alternate years as the Going Under Fan Fund) was established in 1979 to further contacts between European and Australian fandoms by bringing a well-known and popular fan from one hemisphere to attend a convention in the other. GUFF exists solely through the support of fandom. The candidates are voted for by interested fans all over the world and each vote is accompanied by a fee of not less than £1.50 or A$4.00. These votes and the continued interest and generosity of fandom are what makes GUFF possible.
WHO MAY VOTE? Voting is open to anyone who has been active in fandom (fanzines, conventions, clubs, etc) prior to January 1988 and who contributes at least £1.50 or A$4.00 to the fund. Contributions in excess of this minimum are gratefully accepted. Voting is by secret ballot, only one vote per person is allowed, proxy votes are forbidden and you must sign your ballot. "Write-in" candidates are permitted. Cheques, postal orders and money orders should be made payable to 'GUFF if in A and to 'Eve Harvey' if in £ (if you cannot provide these any other currency should be in notes, but we'd prefer not to incur the additional transaction costs.)
DEADLINE Votes must reach the administrators by 21 April, 1990.
VOTING DETAILS GUFF uses a preferential ballot system, which guarantees an automatic run-off and majority win. You rank the candidates in the order of your preference. If the leading first-place candidate does not get a majority of the total votes cast the first-place votes of the lowest-ranking candidate are dropped and the second-place votes on those ballots are then counted. The process goes on until one candidate has a majority. It is therefore important to vote for second, third, etc. on your ballot. It is also a waste of a vote to put any candidate in any more than one place.
HOLD OVER FUNDS This choice, similar to the No Award in the BSFA and Hugo Award balloting, gives the voter the chance to vote for no GUFF trip, should the candidates not appeal to them or if they feel that GUFF should slow down the frequency of its trips. Should Hold Over Funds receive a majority of votes on the final ballot no GUFF trip will be awarded.
DONATIONS GUFF needs continuous donations of money and material to be auctioned in order to exist. If you are ineligible to vote or don't feel qualified to vote, why not donate anyway? Just as important as donations is publicity – in fanzines, letters, convention booklets, and by word of mouth to increase voter participation and fandom's overall interest in and awareness of GUFF.
THE CANDIDATES Each candidate has promised, barring acts of god, to travel to the 1990 Worldcon (ConFiction) in The Hague, The Netherlands, if elected, posted a non-refundable bond, and provided 5 nominations and a platform. The platform and nominators are detailed overleaf.
VOTES AND CONTRIBUTIONS SHOULD BE SENT TO:
EUROPE: Roelof Goudriaan AUSTRALIA: Irwin Hirsh Caan Van Necklaan 63 26 Jessamine Avenue 2218 BB Rijswijk (ZH) East Prahran THE NETHERLANDS Victoria 3181 AUSTRALIA GUFF 1990 CANDIDATES' PLATFORMS
LARRY DUNNING Born 14 days after Sputnik and raised in various points of the Galaxy but mostly in Perth, Larry works for the Bureau of Statistics producing Government fiction. His interests in mainstream SF, Comics, Games, Art, Films, Folk and Filk are famed if not infamous, and he has been involved in organised fandom since 1975. Larry has also produced several fanzines including APOCRYPHA (a genzine), THE PHANTOM ZINE (an APA) and TAU CETI (a games zine). Known as a masseur and hug therapist, winning GUFF would enable Larry to write the best trip report since the Odyssey. Remember, Dunning is running!
Nominators: Terry Frost, Carey Handfield, Shirley Page, Grant Stone, and Pascal Thomas.
MARK LONEY & MICHELLE MUIJSERT As Michelle has yet to return from the trackless wastes of northern Ontario (become a computer programmer and see the world!), the task of drafting 100 words of deathless vote-winning prose has fallen to me alone. The obvious fanac to mention is THE SPACE WASTREL but, I must admit guiltily, we haven't pubbed our ish since 1988. But we have both been fans since the seventies, both involved in running clubs and conventions as well as pubbing fanzines, and would love to meet as many of you as possible in Holland and the UK in 1990. Till then hopefully....
Eve Harvey, Perry Middlemiss, Julian Warner, Roger Weddall, and Pam Wells.
ROMAN ORSZANSKI Bearded, baroque and bilingual bicyclist and broadcaster Roman has been producing small and curious fanzines since 175, m inspired by Aussiecon. He's hovered around conventions since, organising his own when necessary. Fond of talking, he's sometimes press-ganged onto panels – but prefers parties, eating, and drinking. He produced THE STREAM-DRIVEN FLUGELHORN, Australia's first audio-fanzine, and has launched several radio programmes (including ones on Film, SF and Media). His interests include jazz (modern), films (old, black & white), community radio and protecting rain-forests. An ardent greenie, he's campaigned on many environmental issues. His ambition: dance until dawn in the capitals of Europe.
Nominators: John Foyster, Judith Hanna, Joseph Nicholas, Marc Ortlieb, and Jean Weber.
I VOTE FOR: (rank 1, 2, 3, etc)
( ) Larry Dunning
SIGNATURE:
( ) Mark Loney & Michelle Muijsert
NAME & ADDRESS:
( ) Roman Orszanski
( ) Hold Over Funds
( ) (Write-in)
I enclose ______ as a donation to GUFF. (Make £ cheques payable to 'Eve Harvey' and A$ cheques payable to 'GUFF' If you think your name may not be known to the administrators and that your vote might be disqualified, please give the name & address of a fan (not a fan group, a candidate or their nominators) to whom you are known:
Reproduction of this sheet is encouraged provided that the text is reprinted verbatim. Anyone doing so should substitute their name here: Irwin Hirsh