ABSTRACT
As a search process continues, the time comes for choosing candidates for interviews. At this point departments are prone to make an error in their voting procedure that leads to unfortunate results. The procedure has violated an essential principle of fair voting. Each voter should have been given the same number of votes as the number of candidates to be selected. In short, voting may proceed in a variety of ways, but in any case each voter should be allowed to express as many preferences as the number of people to be selected. Departmental decisions of this sort can be bitter enough without adding to the mix an irrational decision procedure.
