[EL] Moonlight

Mon Feb 27 16:51:50 PST 2017

I'm just waiting for Richard to explain why some un-nominated film has the right to be voted on.

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On Feb 27, 2017, at 7:37 PM, Kogan, Vladimir <kogan.18 at osu.edu<mailto:kogan.18 at osu.edu>> wrote:

It would be great if the Academy released the full, round-by-round, vote totals, so we could see how many of the first-round votes became “exhausted” prior to the final round that ultimately determined the winner.

From: law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu<mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu> [mailto:law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] On Behalf Of Rob Richie
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Subject: Re: [EL] Moonlight

What happened last night is  more like the famous headline "Dewey defeats Truman" headline in 1948 -- e.g, an error in reporting (with the error from the envelope  confusion).

What we really can productively learn from this relates to the virtues of the ranked choice voting ('instant runoff") system used by the Academy since 2009 to elect Best Picture. Given the results of the Best Director pick, which is decided by plurality, it's a reasonable guess that La La Land had the most first choices in the Best Picture race. As the RCV tally played out, with last-place finishers eliminated and their ballots added to the next ranked choice, the final two movies were likely La La Land and Moonlight. If that's the case, then the result means that Moonlight was preferred b Academy voters when matched head-to-head against La La Land.

There's a lesson for this in how we pick our leaders in real elections in races with more than two candidates - from the Republican presidential primaries to several key Senate races. I blogged about it at Huffington Post last week, by the way -- see https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www&d=DwIF-g&c=2s2mvbfY0UoSKkl6_Ol9wg&r=cr3Pr4vJJc1UXWQModNCNsz6K7Bs62Mj_SjLx8Hx6eKHc9VrhABbmJ4b8qYqzj1h&m=Lq68ydTcpcUuMgW_6SXR5Ekchhr39BLd-buNiapzO0k&s=34Jm8fAMIlDri-RhKbcW8sWPEiwlb3dNwEdKLwiHync&e= <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www&d=DwMGaQ&c=2s2mvbfY0UoSKkl6_Ol9wg&r=RKJ_pThjMyN_xzS53wJy8AHaUXwt6NdBkZ_r4PPJGs0&m=WiDVRHAi7nMGTJb2i-fE5OdHsJczkNY__MY1QiQregw&s=-FuqaL32Z8FSqHt-NCqQ6TBEHXhyEwUrOrtEVagQu2g&e=>.huffingtonpost.com/entry/thinking-outside-the-vox-on-best-picture-and-ranked_us_58ac7ebde4b0e476995c53ec<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__huffingtonpost.com_entry_thinking-2Doutside-2Dthe-2Dvox-2Don-2Dbest-2Dpicture-2Dand-2Dranked-5Fus-5F58ac7ebde4b0e476995c53ec&d=DwIF-g&c=2s2mvbfY0UoSKkl6_Ol9wg&r=cr3Pr4vJJc1UXWQModNCNsz6K7Bs62Mj_SjLx8Hx6eKHc9VrhABbmJ4b8qYqzj1h&m=Lq68ydTcpcUuMgW_6SXR5Ekchhr39BLd-buNiapzO0k&s=1MVdxTNZWbwMxARLaO7eJ5hEw6n95HjFqvLHpavWc-4&e= >

The Oscar also use ranked choice voting in its non-winner-take-all form in nearly all the nomination contests - we get into this at OscarVotes123.com<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__OscarVotes123.com&d=DwIF-g&c=2s2mvbfY0UoSKkl6_Ol9wg&r=cr3Pr4vJJc1UXWQModNCNsz6K7Bs62Mj_SjLx8Hx6eKHc9VrhABbmJ4b8qYqzj1h&m=Lq68ydTcpcUuMgW_6SXR5Ekchhr39BLd-buNiapzO0k&s=DlMZS7ujM4PeaNgXYesR-mg5tLuLPKrO0p6yflBkxM0&e= >

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On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 8:02 AM, John Tanner <john.k.tanner at gmail.com<mailto:john.k.tanner at gmail.com>> wrote:
won the electoral vote
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