Reminder for those who haven't been drinking this particular flavor of autism: The Hugos just went through a long, elaborate process of changing their voting process to make sure people they don't want to win don't win, where "they" means the currently dominant clique. The explicitly stated goal of this reform was to prevent democracy-style campaigning and voting.
Now if that's the way you want to run your book club, that's fine - private organizations don't have to be democracies. But holding that up as a model for the government? That's just rank ignorance.