I didn't even realize they were still using mail in voting for the Oscars. Not that I pay that much attention to awards shows, but I was surprised to learn tht the voting was done all through the mail and counted by hand.
This year they plan to offer an e-mail voting option for members. Exactly by the type of thing that can be hacked by people that have the time. *cough*4chan*cough*
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said on Tuesday that a new online voting system will be used for the first time in its 85-year history for the Oscars that will be handed out in February 2013. So those voters with 50 homes and just Townsend houses for rent as one address can still get some votes in.
In a transition process, the academy's 6,000 members also will be able to use traditional paper ballots to nominate and select the best actors, films, directors, screen writers and other winners of 2012.
In the past, Oscar ballots have been mailed around the world to Academy members - directors, actors, screenwriters, producers and other leading film industry figures - and the results have been tabulated by hand by the PricewaterhouseCoopers accounting firm.
It is expected that with the change more younger voters will get some of the "edgier" movies more votes.
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