Subsuming the ratings of participants would only have given insights on the certainty of their collective judgment, and we leave this topic to the specialists of votes, public opinion and related issues.
One session leader asked an audience of HIV specialists to vote anonymously on a hypothetical scenario: would they prescribe PrEP to an HIV-negative gay man who says he does not and will not use condoms?
Richard L. Hasen, a voting specialist at the University of California-Irvine, said that despite concerted legislative efforts since 2000 to reduce obstacles to overseas voting, military participation rates remain "abysmally low".
The much-recorded pianist and prominent musicologist Charles Rosen recalled for me his memory of the Leeds competition at which the Bach specialist Rosalyn Tureck voted against András Schiff in the finals.
He is currently locked in what is expected to be a tough contest against, among others, Oscar James Jr., the son of the well-known get-out-the-vote specialist who helped engineer the senior Mr. James's victory in the last mayoral election.
Adoree' Jackson accomplished a second triple in four days Tuesday when the Pac-12 Conference announced the USC junior was the league's defensive player of the year as well as first-team all-conference as a defensive back and return specialist in a vote of head coaches.
In 2011 FairVote legal intern Cynthia Okechukwu did an excellent legal analysis that effectively addressed concerns about equal protection of voters, and in 2012 Rob Richie coauthored a Roll Call commentary with leading early voting specialist Paul Gronke on the idea of having ranked choice ballots for overseas voters built into the presidential nominating process.
"Voting is a constitutional right, and it shouldn't be denied because of an arbitrary deadline," said Regina Eaton, a voting-rights specialist at Demos, a public policy research and advocacy organization whose priorities include voting issues.
"If the F.D.A. follows through with this vote, you've just added another big disincentive for the drug companies to come up with obesity drugs, and we desperately need new drugs," said Dr. Ed J. Hendricks, an obesity specialist in Sacramento, who voted with the minority.
