2013 Oscar voting will be electronic

PanARMENIAN.Net - The next year's Oscar Academy Awards voting will electronic.

E-ballots results could be tabulated much faster than paper ballots, which take a considerable amount of time - time spent in transit to voters, time in transit back from voters, and time to be opened, reviewed, and tabulated, The Hollywood Reporter says.

Paper ballots to determine the Oscar nominees were mailed to Academy members on 12/27, received a few days later, due back at the Academy by 1/13, and tabulated over the course of the next several days. In other words, that one step of determining the nominees took more than two weeks to be completed, whereas an e-ballot could be made available to members over the span of just a couple of days and produce a set of nominees as soon as voting closes. The same is obviously true for the second phase of voting. This year's paper ballots to determine the Oscar winners will only be mailed on 2/1, received by voters a few days after not, and are not due back to at the Academy until 2/21. That's another three weeks of time that could be saved by e-voting.

If the Academy elects to conduct e-voting to determine the Oscar nominees on 12/27 of next year - the same day that paper ballots were mailed out this year - it could, hypothetically, announce its nominees within a matter of days, and then hold its show just days thereafter, it says.