Choice Voting Blog

For the second time in one day, the New York Times has covered proportional representation! This time it's for movies. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences uses multi-winner choice voting to select the 5 finalists in each of its Oscar categories. Today's New York Times article describes the process. This is the same choice voting system that UC Davis adopted and that the Davis Governance Task Force is studying for Davis City Council elections.

Ironically, the Academy uses plurality voting (the most votes) to choose the winner among the finalists. This allows for surprising results -- results that might not reflect the majority of the Academy's approximately 6000 voting members.