We’ve got many, many questions about what all goes into the Academy Awards. Not least of which, how exactly does best picture get decided? For the last 15 years, the 10,000-plus members of the Academy ...

But while preferential voting solves this vote-splitting problem, when used in combination with single-member electorates, it nevertheless creates a mechanism that reinforces the two-party duopoly on ...

Now that the final round of Oscar voting is over, it is a good time for a refresher course in how the winner will be decided. Don't worry, it is nowhere near as complicated as the nominations ...

American democracy is straining under countless pressures, many of them rooted in structural problems that go back to the ...

In 2009 -- when the academy went to 10 Best Picture nominees for the first time since 1943 -- the preferential system of voting, which had been used from 1934 to 1945, was reintroduced. The academy ...

Following a year of electoral upsets within the Georgetown University Student Association, GUSA’s much-needed Election Reform Task Force had plenty of fodder for its report presented at the GUSA ...

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