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 * BBWAA balloting key --version 3 (2014)
 * BBWAA balloting 2 --version 2 (2013), perhaps to be modified --2014-01-22, transcluded 1999

Was the 5% rule instituted in 1967?
 * 2014 revisions
 * Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 2000 -- version 3 is in use
 * Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 1999 -- version 2 which may be appropriate back to 1967(?) when our use of pink background color begins Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 1967

now biennial thru 1966; no printed ballot printed ballot, about 400 players many would lose eligibility prior to the next election in 1964
 * 1956: "The BBWAA was authorized to elect players active in 1926 or later, but not after 1950."
 * 1958
 * 1962: "The BBWAA was authorized to elect players active in 1932 or later, but not after 1956."
 * 1964: "The BBWAA was authorized to elect players active in 1944 or later, but not after 1958."

Official BBWAA Results by Year --evidently broken

They were also eliminated from future consideration by the Veterans Committee of the time, a possibility later restored.
 * Performance in the BBWAA elections, about 5 to 20 years after retirement, was one criterion for subsequent consideration as a "veteran" for a couple decades? }}

the Veterans Committee -- 50 years biennially OR annually covering 40-some elections 1953 to 2001

Data

 * [r] – elected in runoff
 * & – number of candidates who received votes; size of ballot unknown
 * counted – numbers in this table (and in the article if revised) have been checked against the main table.

They should be checked against Baseball-Reference.

=1967=
 * This was the last election with runoff provisions (and a runoff). It is the first where we use four-color background shading.

Elections to the Baseball Hall of Fame for 1967 followed rules in transition. The Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) held its first election in any odd-number year since 1955 and its last election with provision for a runoff in case of no winner. (In June the rules were rewritten to restore a single annual vote permanently.) In the event, the BBWAA voted twice by mail and elected Red Ruffing on the second ballot. The Veterans Committee met in closed sessions to consider executives, managers, umpires, and earlier major league players. It selected two people, Branch Rickey and Lloyd Waner.

BBWAA election
The BBWAA was authorized to elect players active in 1947 or later but not after 1961 (final game, 1947 to 1961). There were 47 candidates including 9 on the ballot for the first time (†), chosen by a screening committee from players who last appeared in 1961. All 10-year members of the BBWAA were eligible to participate by voting for as many as 10 candidates and any candidate receiving votes on at least 75% of the ballots returned would be honored with induction to the Hall.

A total of 292 ballots were returned so 219 votes were required for election. A total of 2321 individual votes were cast, an average of 7.95 per ballot. 19 candidates (*) received less than 5% support, or 15 votes, and would not appear on future BBWAA ballots but might eventually be considered by the Veterans Committee.

(runoff) No player received 75% support so there was a runoff election featuring those 31 who received 10 or more votes (thirty leaders including a tie). One winner of the runoff election would be inducted, regardless of numerical support on the second ballot; in fact, winner Red Ruffing tallied 266 of 306 votes or 87%. A total of 1198 individual votes were cast in the runoff, an average of 4.10 per ballot.

(location?)

Red Ruffing, Al Lopez, Billy Herman, Mel Harder and Ernie Lombardi (*) were on the ballot for the final time because they last played in 1947. Ruffing was elected and those 23 who received at least 5% support and last played during 1948–61 were forwarded to next year.

The results show that voters in the second election concentrated their support on the three leaders.