[EL] More info on Oscar nomination & role of ranked choice voting (was Re: ELB News and Commentary 1/2/20)

[Rob Richie]

Justin is a great, spirited substitute for Rick's amazing work keeping us
updated with daily updates of election law news. Thanks to both of you and
t others like Dan Tokaji for your service!

I wanted to clarify one item Justin has below. A good rundown of what it
takes to be nominated came out this week by Steve Pond in the Wrap,
<https://www.thewrap.com/how-many-votes-does-it-take-to-get-an-oscar-nomination-in-2020/>
who covers his better than anyone. We have some older resources on it to,
as the main way Oscars are nominated is the foundation for the Fair
Representation Act i <http://www.fairrepresentation.com>n Congress.

For those who know your voting methods, nearly all Oscar nominations --
including every major category expect Best Picture -- are by a classic form
of ranked choice voting: the "single transferable vote" form of
proportional representation. There are a fixed number of nominees in nearly
all categories (five), and it takes just over one-sixth of each branch of
the Academy to nominate a candidate. The rules are like other "STV"
elections for the Irish parliament, Australian senate, Cambridge (MA) city
council (and some local elections in Minneapolis MN and Eastpointe MI) and
council/board elections affecting all voters in Scotland and New Zealand.

There is one minor category using a form of range voting. But such "rating"
system have fallen out of favor at the Academy after some history of gaming
the vote -- like how the documentary Hoop Dreams was denied a nomination by
a group artificially lowering their ratings of it. A virtue of "STV" is
that, as in the instant runoff form, tactical voting is impractical in the
real world.

For Best Picture, the Academy still uses a ranked ballot but a few years
ago it modified STV for a fixed slate of 10 nominees to instead emphasize
the first choice and not have a fixed number of nominees. At the same time,
Best Picture is the only category to rely on ranked choice voting to pick
the Oscar in part because it's the only category to have more than 5
nominees -- and a "plurality vote" was seen as too risky for betting a
really polarizing winner in a  fractured field.

In general, one  sees a lot of interesting alternative voting system use in
such kinds of voting. Among many examples, the Heisman Trophy and most
major sports awards and college team rankings used ranked choice systems
tied to point totals - variations of the "Borda count" that are easy to
game, but with gaming kept i check because individual votes are made public
and open to scrutiny. Hall of Fame selection is a form of "approval voting"
with a cap on votes and minimum level of support needed to get into the
Hall -- a system that allows a determined minority to block a controversial
figure like Barry Bonds despite his unparalleled stats.

On the ranked choice voting front, well over 60 American colleges and
universities <https://www.fairvote.org/rcv_in_campus_elections> today use
RCV to pick student leaders --with a wide variation of schools (recent
additions include Auburn and U-Texas), and a good number use the single
transferable vote, proportional form and nearly all use the "instant
runoff" form for student government presidents.

The British Labor Party and Liberal Party will both use RCV to choose their
new leaders in the coming  weeks, and the Conservative Party of Canada will
likely do so later this year -- it used RCV in its 2017 leadership
election, as do all the other national political parties in Canada.

- Rob Richie, FairVote


On Thursday, January 2, 2020, Levitt, Justin <justin.levitt at lls.edu> wrote:

> Primary voting begins today … <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108667>
>
> Posted on January 2, 2020 1:38 pm <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108667>
> by *Justin Levitt* <https://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
>
> … in the Oscars race.  It’s an alternative voting system
> <https://www.oscars.org/sites/oscars/files/92aa_rules.pdf> for
> nominations (and in a few categories, for the final result):
>
> In the nominations voting, the marking and tabulation of all ballots shall
> be according to the preferential, weighted average, or reweighted range
> voting system. Votes for achievements in motion pictures not on the
> Reminder List will not be counted in the nominations balloting. Tabulation
> of final ballots shall be according to the plurality or preferential
> system. No “write-in” votes shall be counted on the final ballot.
>
> There’s a good explanation here
> <https://www.goldderby.com/article/2019/2020-oscar-nominations-voting/> using
> last year’s Best Actress contenders, and FairVote (among others) will
> periodically put out explanations of its own
> <https://www.fairvote.org/how_ranked_choice_voting_leads_to_fair_representation_in_oscar_nominations>
> .
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> Posted in alternative voting systems <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=63>
> , primaries <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=32>
>
>
> “Voting Rights Restoration Backlog Leaves Iowans with Felony Convictions
> Waiting” <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108665>
>
> Posted on January 2, 2020 1:37 pm <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108665>
> by *Justin Levitt* <https://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
>
> Iowa Public Radio
> <https://www.iowapublicradio.org/post/voting-rights-restoration-backlog-leaves-iowans-felony-convictions-waiting> previews
> an issue with increased urgency given the February 3 primaries.
>
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> Posted in primaries <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=32>
>
>
> Unaffiliated voters and the California primaries
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108663>
>
> Posted on January 2, 2020 1:37 pm <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108663>
> by *Justin Levitt* <https://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
>
> Jessica Levinson forecasts coming confusion in California
> <https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2020-01-02/no-preference-party-presidential-primary-california>,
> a heavily absentee-voting state where voters have now been trained on a
> “top two” state primary (in which voters can vote on all candidates, no
> matter their party registration).   But the top two system doesn’t apply to
> the presidential primary.
>
> This year, the California vote is likely to be quite meaningful in the
> presidential nominating contest … and voters not already registered in the
> Democratic party (among others) will have to request a partisan absentee
> ballot in order to vote in the primary.  That’s an extra step that local
> election officials are doing their best to highlight, but still likely to
> cause some confusion come election day itself.
>
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>
> Posted in political parties <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>,
> primaries <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=32>
>
>
> “Conservatives seek immediate purge of voters in Wisconsin”
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108661>
>
> Posted on January 2, 2020 1:36 pm <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108661>
> by *Justin Levitt* <https://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
>
> The latest on this saga <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108587> is a
> motion seeking to hold the members of the Wisconsin Elections Commission
> in contempt
> <http://www.startribune.com/conservatives-seek-immediate-purge-of-voters-in-wisconsin/566648591/> for
> failing to remove 200,000 voter registrations pending an appeal of a state
> trial court’s order.  More here
> <https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2020/01/02/wisconsin-judge-asked-hold-officials-contempt-over-voter-rolls/2794045001/>
> .
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>
> Posted in The Voting Wars <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, voter
> registration <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=37>
>
>
> “‘Alabama Counts’: How one Republican state bucks national trends and
> boosts Census awareness” <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108659>
>
> Posted on January 2, 2020 1:35 pm <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108659>
> by *Justin Levitt* <https://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
>
> Alabama is *right* on the brink of losing a congressional seat – under most
> projections
> <https://www.electiondataservices.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/NR_Appor19wTablesMaps.pdf>,
> it’s the state that would get the 436th seat if that were a thing. (And
> that’s if the Census count is actually accurate.)
>
> And so perhaps it’s not surprising that Alabama is one of the few
> conservative states apparently spending substantially on Census outreach
> <https://www.al.com/news/2019/12/alabama-counts-how-one-republican-state-bucks-national-trends-and-boosts-census-awareness.html>
> .
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> Posted in redistricting <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>
>
>
> “Census 2020 Tests Social-Media Giants’ Ability to Combat Disinformation”
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108657>
>
> Posted on January 2, 2020 1:34 pm <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108657>
> by *Justin Levitt* <https://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
>
> The Wall St. Journal highlights the social media fight against
> disinformation
> <https://www.wsj.com/articles/census-2020-tests-social-media-giants-ability-to-combat-disinformation-11577977790> ahead
> of the 2020 census.
>
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>
> Posted in chicanery <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>, Election
> Meltdown <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=127>, social media and social
> protests <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=58>
>
>
> “Americans wary of 2020 census; more than $1 trillion hangs in balance”
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108655>
>
> Posted on January 2, 2020 1:34 pm <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108655>
> by *Justin Levitt* <https://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
>
> The Washington Times
> <https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jan/1/2020-census-questions-unnerve-americans/> on
> census response.
>
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>
> Posted in Uncategorized <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
>
>
> “Cyber attacks and electronic voting errors threaten 2020 outcome, experts
> warn” <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108653>
>
> Posted on January 2, 2020 1:33 pm <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108653>
> by *Justin Levitt* <https://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
>
> The Guardian reports
> <https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/02/elections-2020-cyber-attacks-democrats-experts>
> .
>
> Cybersecurity is exceedingly important.  And now your reminder that at
> least in the past, we have been more prone to hacking
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=100965> than the voting systems.
>
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>
> Posted in chicanery <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>, voting
> technology <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=40>
>
>
> “Election Security at the Chip Level”
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108651>
>
> Posted on January 2, 2020 1:33 pm <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108651>
> by *Justin Levitt* <https://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
>
> Semiconductor Engineering
> <https://semiengineering.com/how-secure-are-electronic-voting-machines/> reports
> on some of the challenges confronting manufacturers of secure accessible
> voting systems, and some of the industry efforts to meet those challenges.
>
> That’s right, *Semiconductor Engineering*.  You’re welcome.
>
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>
> Posted in voting technology <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=40>
>
>
> “Under Trump, voter turnout surges in Virginia’s off-year elections”
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108649>
>
> Posted on January 2, 2020 1:33 pm <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108649>
> by *Justin Levitt* <https://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
>
> The WaPo headline is absolutely accurate
> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/under-trump-voter-turnout-surges-in-virginias-off-year-elections/2020/01/01/fcf9d662-2b36-11ea-9b60-817cc18cf173_story.html>
> .
>
> And the “surge” they’re describing reached 48 percent turnout in 2017, and
> 43 percent in 2019 – far more than most off-year elections, and still less
> than a majority of the eligible electorate.
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>
> Posted in voting <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=31>
>
>
> The Year in Recall Elections <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108647>
>
> Posted on January 2, 2020 1:32 pm <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108647>
> by *Justin Levitt* <https://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
>
> Apropos for the holiday season, the Recall Elections Blog
> <https://recallelections.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-year-in-recalls-87-recalls-37.html> summarizes
> some of the “returns and exchanges” of 2019.
>
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> Posted in recall elections <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=11>
>
>
> “Commission on Appellate Court Appointments in Spotlight as Redistricting
> Fight Nears” <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108645>
>
> Posted on January 2, 2020 1:31 pm <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108645>
> by *Justin Levitt* <https://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
>
> In Arizona, the commission on appellate court appointments is also the
> screening body for applicants to the state’s independent redistricting
> commission.  And with tomorrow’s deadline on applications to the
> commission, KJZZ has a story on some of the upstream impact
> <https://kjzz.org/content/1377341/commission-appellate-court-appointments-spotlight-redistricting-fight-nears> on
> the bodies designated to choose those drawing the lines.
>
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>
> Posted in redistricting <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>
>
>
> “Virginia was home to the first gerrymander. It should also be the home of
> its solution.” <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108643>
>
> Posted on January 2, 2020 1:31 pm <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108643>
> by *Justin Levitt* <https://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
>
> Sam Wang
> <https://www.richmond.com/opinion/columnists/sam-wang-column-virginia-was-home-to-the-first-gerrymander/article_c15435fa-6ba8-57eb-9464-cdf7b3847fbf.html> urges
> the new unilateral Democratic majority in Virginia to follow through on
> redistricting reform.
>
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>
> Posted in legislation and legislatures
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=27>, political parties
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=25>, redistricting
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=6>
>
>
> “Paralysis Grips U.S. Election Overseer While Complaints Pile Up”
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108641>
>
> Posted on January 2, 2020 1:31 pm <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108641>
> by *Justin Levitt* <https://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
>
> Bloomberg (the press entity, not the candidate) reviews the FEC docket
> <https://about.bgov.com/news/paralysis-grips-u-s-election-overseer-while-complaints-pile-up/>
> .
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> Posted in campaign finance <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>
>
>
> “A Century of Votes for Women” <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108639>
>
> Posted on January 2, 2020 1:30 pm <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108639>
> by *Justin Levitt* <https://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
>
> Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder with a new book
> <https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/century-of-votes-for-women/773D75DD40FA858F0412D8F2EE322B5C> on
> the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment.  The abstract:
>
> *How have American women voted in the first 100 years since the
> ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment? How have popular understandings
> of women as voters both persisted and changed over time? In A Century of
> Votes for Women, Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder offer an
> unprecedented account of women voters in American politics over the last
> ten decades. Bringing together new and existing data, the book provides
> unique insight into women’s (and men’s) voting behavior, and traces how
> women’s turnout and vote choice evolved across a century of enormous
> transformation overall and for women in particular. Wolbrecht and Corder
> show that there is no such thing as ‘the woman voter’; instead they reveal
> considerable variation in how different groups of women voted in response
> to changing political, social, and economic realities. The book also
> demonstrates how assumptions about women as voters influenced politicians,
> the press, and scholars.*
>
> Should be an interesting read.
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>
> Posted in 19th Amendment <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=128>, political
> equality <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=69>
>
>
> Quantitative election administration studies: early voting and polling
> place location <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108637>
>
> Posted on January 2, 2020 1:30 pm <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108637>
> by *Justin Levitt* <https://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
>
> Two studies newly published in the latest issue of the *American Economic
> Journal: Applied Economics* series:
>
> Ethan Kaplan and Haishan Yuan, Early Voting Laws, Voter Turnout, and
> Partisan Vote Composition: Evidence from Ohio
> <https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20180192>
>
> *We estimate effects of early voting on voter turnout using a 2010
> homogenization law from Ohio that forced some counties to expand and others
> to contract early voting. Using voter registration data, we compare
> individuals who live within the same 2×2 mile squareblock but in different
> counties. We find substantial positive impacts of early voting on turnout
> equal to 0.22 percentage points of additional turnout per additional early
> voting day. We also find greater impacts on women, Democrats, independents,
> and those of child-bearing and working age. We simulate impacts of national
> early day laws on recent election outcomes.*
>
> Enrico Cantoni, A Precinct Too Far: Turnout and Voting Costs
> <https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20180306>
>
> *I study the effects of voting costs—specifically, distance to polling
> location—using geographic discontinuities. Opposite sides of boundaries
> between voting precincts are observationally identical, except for their
> assigned polling locations. This discontinuous assignment produces sharp
> changes in voters’ travel distance to cast their ballots. In nine
> municipalities in Massachusetts and Minnesota, a 1 standard deviation
> (0.245 mile) increase in distance reduces ballots cast by 2 to 5 percent
> across four elections. During non-presidential elections, effects are three
> times larger in high-minority areas than in low-minority areas. Finally, I
> simulate the impact of various counterfactual assignments of voters to
> polling places.*
>
> I look forward to reading these.
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> Posted in election administration <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, legislation
> and legislatures <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=27>, political equality
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=69>, The Voting Wars
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
>
>
> “On Va. Democrats’ 2020 to-do list, voting rights seem to top campaign
> finance reform” <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108635>
>
> Posted on January 2, 2020 1:28 pm <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108635>
> by *Justin Levitt* <https://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
>
> The Virginia Mercury
> <https://www.virginiamercury.com/2020/01/02/on-va-democrats-2020-to-do-list-voting-rights-seem-to-top-campaign-finance-reform/> looks
> at the legislative session ahead.
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>
> Posted in campaign finance <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=10>, election
> administration <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=18>, The Voting Wars
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>
>
>
> “In ancient Athens, ostracism did the job of impeachment”
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108633>
>
> Posted on January 2, 2020 1:27 pm <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108633>
> by *Justin Levitt* <https://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
>
> The Economist seriously shifting the Overton window for impeachment, with
> a review of ancient Athenian exile
> <https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2020/01/04/in-ancient-athens-ostracism-did-the-job-of-impeachment>
> .
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> Posted in Uncategorized <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=1>
>
>
> Federal court issues preliminary injunction against 2018 NC voter ID law
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108630>
>
> Posted on January 1, 2020 3:21 pm <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108630>
> by *Justin Levitt* <https://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
>
> The law, enacted over the Governor’s veto, usually requires a qualifying
> photo ID to vote.  As compared to the previous ID law passed in the wake of *Shelby
> County *and invalidated in 2016, it expands the list of acceptable IDs
> (to a list of 10 different types, though with limits on student and
> government employee IDs) and the means of getting a free ID, applies to
> absentee as well as in-person ballots, and allows for a voter with a
> reasonable impediment to getting a photo ID to say so at the polls in order
> to vote a ballot that should count … if the administrative process works
> smoothly.
>
> The court enjoined the law as the product of discriminatory intent, but
> found that the proven impact was (at least at the preliminary stage)
> insufficient to make out a “results” violation of section 2 of the Voting
> Rights Act. Stay tuned for the inevitable appeal.
>
> Coverage of the federal court’s decision is here
> <https://abc11.com/politics/nc-judge-formally-strikes-down-voter-id-law/5802798/>
> , here
> <https://www.journalnow.com/news/local/judge-blocks-state-s-voter-id-law-calling-it-racially/article_f354e194-519c-558f-86b7-9f0c6a28fb1e.html>,
> and here
> <https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/election/article238870598.html>.
> The order itself is here
> <http://dig.abclocal.go.com/wtvd/docs/voter%20ID%20order.pdf>.
>
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> <https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=https%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D108630&title=Federal%20court%20issues%20preliminary%20injunction%20against%202018%20NC%20voter%20ID%20law>
>
> Posted in The Voting Wars <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=60>, voter id
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=9>
>
>
> Chief Justice Roberts’s year-end report on the judiciary
> <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108628>
>
> Posted on January 1, 2020 3:20 pm <https://electionlawblog.org/?p=108628>
> by *Justin Levitt* <https://electionlawblog.org/?author=4>
>
> It starts with a tie
> <https://www.supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/year-end/2019year-endreport.pdf> between
> the Federalist Papers and the danger of fake news (which started a riot
> which earned John Jay a rock to the head), and includes a brief paean to
> the independence of the judiciary from the gentleman about to preside over
> an impeachment trial.  7 pages, but there’s a fair amount of there in there.
>
>
> <https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=https%3A%2F%2Felectionlawblog.org%2F%3Fp%3D108628&title=Chief%20Justice%20Roberts%E2%80%99s%20year-end%20report%20on%20the%20judiciary>
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