The State Election Board is confined to the nominees submitted in making appointments.

The county election board is confined to the nominees submitted in making appointments.

The executive director is chosen from nominees submitted by EAC's Standards Board and Board of Advisors.

Each Justice is appointed by the Governor of Wyoming from a list of three nominees submitted by the judicial nominating commission, for an eight-year term.

Beginning in 1998, the Governor may appoint a poet laureate from a list of nominees submitted by the Poetry Society of Virginia.

Justices are appointed by the governor from a list of nominees submitted by the State Judicial Nominating Commission.

Jurors are now limited to voting for the official entries, augmented by a short list of nominees submitted by experts like the science-fiction author William Gibson.

The governor of Louisiana appoints board members from a list of three nominees submitted by 19 local business, civic, labor, education and maritime groups.

Along with his first batch of nominees, submitted in May, President Bush included an appeal to the Senate Democrats to put aside confrontation.

The nominees submitted for Internet voting were picked using an unpublished process involving editors at Entertainment Weekly, the show's production team, and a group of pop culture fans.