Magic® Type B Voting Procedure

The following is a verbatim excerpt from the email sent by Brian Habing to the newly-formed Type B committee on August 23, 1999.  It outlines the basic voting procedure for the Type B format.

Although voting rounds may vary slightly from the outline below, in general they all conform (more or less :-)



"The election procedure:

"Step 0) The committee chair e-mails the rest of the committee to get their nominations for the automatic nominations to the nomination ballot.  They automatically make it on unless 2/3rds of the committee objects.  Rules changes like banning or unbanning cards, errataing cards, changing the mulligan rule, changing the number of multi-lands, etc... require a majority vote of the committee to be automatically nominated.

"Step 1) Make up the ballot, e-mail it to anyone who is on the mailing list, and post it on the newsgroup daily for two weeks.  The ballot lists the automatic nominations, and allows everyone to nominate up to: five cards to go from limit 4 to limit 2, five cards to go from limit 2 to limit 4, two cards to go from limit 2 to restricted, and two cards to go from restricted to limit 2.

"Step 2) The committee looks at all the nominations and throws out any that are just silly, or go against the spirit of the format (as decided by 2/3rds vote of the committee).  If two nominations are contradictory (i.e. someone wants it moved from limit two to limit four and someone else wants it moved to restricted) then the committee decides which if either goes on the ballot (majority vote).  The ballot has all the automatic nominations and the submitted ones that weren't thrown out.  The voting ballot should be put together within two or three days of the nomination one.  Add anyone who nominated anything to the e-mail list.

"Step 3) The voting ballot is e-mailed to everyone on the mailing list and posted to the newsgroup for two weeks.  The votes at the end are tallied (there usually aren't a huge number), and majority of the voters at large rules.  In the case of a tie vote, it passes if it was an automatic nomination and fails otherwise.

"Step 4) Post the results on the newsgroup and web-site and e-mail them out.  The changes take effect about a month from the end of the election, usually at the beginning of a month to make it easy.

"And that's about it."


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