As anyone in the U.S. government will tell you, democracy is messy.

The latest group subjected to its unkempt ways is the documentary branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

For those of you following along, the mercurial branch has been trying to refine its voting process for the Academy Awards for years. In its latest iteration, announced in January, the branch instituted two new policies: first, that every member of the documentary branch could vote on the nominees, as opposed to the secret committee that used to decide the chosen five; and second, that titles could be deemed eligible if they received a review in either the New York Times or the Los Angeles Times.

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