2017 TAFF Race

In 2017, TAFF sent a North American to Worldcon 75 in Helsinki, Finland. The administrators were Curt Phillips (United States, 2014 winner) and Anna Raftery (UK, 2016 winner). They issued no newsletter, just a few brief announcements online: The race was announced in October 2016 (day unspecified), with nominations "open through the end of November". Voting started in December, with deadline of March 4, 2017; in February this was extended until Monday April 17, the end of Eastercon 2017 "after much deliberation, consultation, and poking from interested fans … in order to encourage more votes, especially those who will be enjoying a convention over that weekend". The winners were announced a day later.

Candidate	N. Am	Eur	Total
Sarah Gulde	9	9	18
Alissa McKersie	30	29	59
John Purcell	48	11	59
Hold Over Funds	0	1	1
No Preference	5	2	7
Total Votes	92	52	144

The TAFF rules require candidates to receive at least 20% of the vote in both North America and Europe. Sarah Gulde did not reach this, so was eliminated together with Hold Over Funds and No Preference; the votes were recounted using their second place preferences. In the following years, Gulde ran again and was second out of 4 in the 2019 TAFF Race and the winner out of 2 in 2024 TAFF Race.

Candidate	N. Am	Eur	Total
Alissa McKersie	32	35	67
John Purcell	54	14	68
Total Votes	86	49	135

John Purcell became the delegate by a single vote. He visited the UK before the Worldcon and published his trip report in installments between November 2017 and March 2018. All three candidates had "posted campaign material online."

• One-off website.
• 2017 website.

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