Sentence examples for preferential ballot from inspiring English sources

For the best picture category, the Academy, unlike Bafta and others, uses a preferential ballot system.

The lower house is elected using a preferential ballot (the alternative vote), which arouses no serious criticism and has provided stable governments for over 90 years.

The lesson would seem to be, for those who haven't learned it yet, that despite its reputation for blandness, the Academy's new ish) preferential ballot system favors films with a small pocket of passionate support over over broad consensus choices.

Mr. Torricelli's name recognition and Washington credentials were simply no match for Mr. McGreevey's alliances with Democratic operatives who could deliver the preferential ballot position that is crucial in primary elections.

Most of the state's 21 county committees give a preferential ballot position to the Senate candidate they endorse, whether by voting in a county convention or by fiat of the county chairman.

As the three little-known contenders in the Republican primary spent today vying for campaign funds and endorsements, one of the candidates, State Senator Diane B. Allen, prepared to file a legal challenge to prevent one of her rivals from getting a preferential ballot position in Bergen County.

Ranking rationale: The PGA uses the same preferential voting ballot that the academy employs, meaning its winner usually goes on to take best picture.

That divisiveness counts against the film in the preferential balloting system, designed to reward the film with the broadest spread of admiration within the Academy.

In the other categories, voters choose one of the five nominees; in Best Picture, they cast preferential ballots in which voters rank all nine nominees from first through last choice.

A new preferential balloting system in the best picture category raises the possibility that a heavily endorsed second-choice candidate could upend the presumed front-runners, if they were to split the first-choice votes closely.

Master strategist Weinstein has remained bullish in interviews – claiming it will ace the Academy's preferential balloting system because it's the "cumulative best" – but the campaign's desperation is showing, not least in its distasteful "Honour the Man, Honour the Film" ads.