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The Academy uses a ranked-choice voting method, called a preferential ballot, to decide the 'Best Picture' winner. But how does it work?

Anne-Marie Slaughter is CEO of New America ... The one thing I would do to fix American democracy is to have as many states as possible move to ranked-choice voting—that is, elections in ...

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The ranked voting system aims to level the playing field among best picture nominees, and tends to benefit movies that are crowd-pleasing rather than sharply polarizing. So how does it work?