1987 TAFF Race

The 1987 TAFF race was eastbound, sending a North American fan to Conspiracy '87, the 1987 Worldcon in Brighton, England. The candidates were Jeanne Gomoll Bill Bowers, Brian Earl Brown, Mike Glicksohn, and Robert Lichtman. Gomoll won. The administrators were Patrick and Teresa Nielsen Hayden in the US and Greg Pickersgill in the UK.

	First Round				Second Round
Candidate	NA	UK	Other	Total	NA+O	UK	Total
Jeanne Gomoll	96	42	4	142	159	53	212
Mike Glicksohn	57	20	0	77	86	26	112
Robert Lichtman	35	11	2	48
Bill Bowers	26	4	1	31
Brian Brown	25	3	0	28
Hold Over Funds	3	0	0	3

The administrators followed a somewhat odd (but not invalid in this case) procedure. Instead of removing one candidate each round, they removed all of the candidate who failed to get at least 20% of the vote in Round 2, yielding a race between Glicksohn and Gomoll with Gomoll the clear winner. (Had the race been closer it's possible that eliminating many candidates at once might have changed the result, but here it is not mathematically possible.)

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