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I for one would really appreciate an Amnesty Day, as over the past month I have had to pack up and move my Mom to Mississippi from L.A., wait to get her phoneline hooked up, unpack, repack because of Hurricane Ivan, and then evacuate for several days, and now I am having to hustle to get ready to move back to England in about a fortnight. Too much RL stuff to get everything done online that I need to do, and when I had *time* to be online it wasn't possible as I had no internet access...

I also thought that we would have longer voting periods, and was quite surprised to see how short they were, which is my own fault as obviously I didn't read something correctly.

I would suggest making the Amnesty period 48 hours and make it clear what time zone you are in, and that will give overseas folks plenty of time to get their voting done. Also, 24 hours is not much time for people that might want to post a lot of votes, what with work, school and other RL issues.

I am certainly going to try to do all of the voting I can during the proper time periods, though.

Marigold : )

>> And I'm also considering an Amnesty Day on October 31st. One
>> last chance to
>> post any votes for any categorie.  But if I do that, will all
>> of you just
>> wait until then to post your votes?  I don't want to encourage
>> procrastination so much as give everyone one last shot to
>> read a few more
>> stories and get some more comments in.
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>Hi Ainaechoiriel,
>I would very much appreciate if there is a Amnesty day !
>I am still struggling to write more reviews.
>I am one of those persons who first read and later write.
>
>Your advice to write votes early is a _very_ good advice
>but one I did not took to heart, because
>I thought I could steal more time from real life during
>voting season ;-)
>
>So perhaps could you make the voting season per category
>longer next time and the overlap larger ?
>
>I started writing reviews only when voting season started, my bad !
>Moreover I did not realize that there were only short time windows
>for each category, I thought
>I could vote for each category the whole season.
>Now I am struggling very hard as my main interest "men"
>came up at first.
>
>And some votes also induced in me the wish to read the
>poems etc. concerned.
>
>Another problem I have, I am not sure when Voting-seasons ends
>per category in Europe.
>
>The notice
>[MEFAwards] Men and Elves Voting, 9/22/2004, 12:00 am
>was sent Thursday 09/21/2004 06:01
>
>while the first
>MEFAwards] Men and Elves Voting, 9/16/2004, 12:00 am
>was sent Wednesday 09/15/2004 05:55
>
>But probably the notices were sent prematurely
>as there is a time difference of 30 hours involved ?
>
>This time window accounting problem
>would be extremely serious for Amnesty day
>when one has only one day I understood.
>I would implore you to make the time window larger
>to allow for persons not living in USA to send in
>before closing hour.
>
>Sorry for being a befuddled procrastinator.
>
>According to http://www.worldtimeserver.com/
>North Dakota has 4:55 Am 09/21/2004
>while Middle Europe has 11:55 AM 09/21/2004
>six hours later. Thus I could send votes until 18:00 PM
>European time to be in time for 12:00 in Central USA.
>
>> Voting Season begins Thursday at 12:01am Central US time
>> and ends on October 30th, 11:59pm Central US time.
>
>Has North Dakota the Central US time ?
>Or can you please give the name of an US-state
>which has the Central US time ?
>
>Many thanks for your great efforts with this project
>Elanor
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