The finalists in each category are determined by voting from MLS players, team employees, and the media.
Is it a sushi thing?The list is determined by votes from a panel of judges, and for the third year in a row they put El Bulli (near Barcelona), the Fat Duck (in Berkshire, England) and Pierre Gagnaire (in Paris) in the top three spots.
Sangakkara won both the Cricketer of the Year and Test Cricketer of the Year awards - which are decided by votes from a panel of former players, members of the media and an elite umpire - in 2012.
Claudette Colbert won the award for It Happened One Night but the uproar led to a change in Academy voting procedures the following year, whereby nominations were determined by votes from all eligible members of a particular branch, rather than by a smaller committee, with results independently tabulated by the accounting firm Price Waterhouse.
Sturgeon and her predecessor Alex Salmond have already stated the SNP would expect Labour to vote alongside them if David Cameron sought to form a minority government, by voting against a Queen's speech from the Tory leader.
In a case brought by voting rights activists from Washington, an international human rights commission has ruled that the United States is violating international law by refusing to give residents of the nation's capital the power to elect members of Congress.
He also said that although he will continue to work with the United States in fighting drugs and organised crime, his priority in security policy is to reduce violence suffered by Mexicans.A court in Ontario ordered Rob Ford to step down as mayor of Toronto because he had violated conflict-of-interest rules by voting to exonerate himself from a technical breach of municipal law.
Detection and isolation of sensor faults are achieved by voting among outputs from several hardware redundant sensors.
His near-victory, propelled by votes from Bosnia's neighbours, was an early example of the so-called "Yugosphere" (which I first wrote about here).As for the Kosovo Albanians, they are still excluded from the contest.
Winners are selected by votes from peers and finalists selected by a panel that includes Lawrence Lessig, Marianne Williamson, and Shepard Fairey.
