Kayla Allen

As some of you know, I've been appointed to run the 2027 Westercon (Westercon 79) Site Selection election that will take place at Westercon 77/BayCon 2025 this year. Initially, it did not look like anyone was going to bid, but it turned out that I'd misunderstood what a potential bidder was telling me. We had a discussion, they provided the necessary paperwork, and I decided that in the interest of fairness since I made a mistake, and with nobody being harmed (nobody else had filed or even expressed an interest), that we could consider their bid filed in time.

Here's the Formal Announcement that Santa Clara in 2027 is on the ballot.

One of the good things about this delay is that we worked out a way to allow people to vote other than on printed paper ballots any by sending paper checks. Once this year's hosting Westercon puts the mechanism for purchasing a "Voting Token" on their website, we'll publish the Westercon 79 Site Selection ballot on Westercon.org and ask Westercon 77 to send it to all of their members.