Still, the people of Auburn, outside Manchester, voted Tuesday by a large margin to adopt a ballot system for the town and the school district.
There are many more would-be diners than the 14,000 seats available at the 280 services of the Fat Duck's six-month stay, so booking will be by a ballot system.
A BBC spokeswoman told me that the smaller studio means a smaller audience, however she revealed that details of a small number of free public tickets to the main show will be allotted through a ballot system and that further details will be announced once the set design plans have been confirmed.
Residents in each of more than a dozen towns had placed an item on the agenda of Tuesday's meetings asking if the people wanted to switch to a ballot system of voting, which proponents said would make the process private and free participants from having to spend a whole day at the annual gathering.
"As with the Olympic Games, we will start sales with a ballot system, followed by the 'real time' purchase system".
The Spirit Awards, for example, use a nominating committee rather than a wide balloting system to come up with their nominees.
In the Cleveland area, voters will confront a new balloting system that has only been in place for a few months.
Democrats here today were trying to sort out the fairly close count -- complicated by breakdowns of a new balloting system in some counties -- and determine if Bill McBride, a Tampa lawyer, might have defeated Janet Reno, the former attorney general, for the nomination.
As voters, both at home and abroad, we should be asking ourselves, Which group of voters, and which candidate, is most likely to benefit from a corrective balloting system organized by military leaders?
