Members with Active status then vote on works appearing on preliminary ballots.

The co-owner, Wellington Mara, and the former linebacker Harry Carson were included on the 60-name preliminary ballot for the Pro Football Hall of Fame class of 1996.

Each of the next five years he didn't get enough support on the preliminary 45-man ballot to merit discussion in the selection meeting.

And over the last eight years, his name has been on the 45-man preliminary ballot only twice.

(Everyone voted for 25 and 15 candidates from the two preliminary ballots.)

His 1998 story "Drawn Words" was on the preliminary ballot for the 1999 Nebula Award.

Voters are instructed to send in both, but the preliminary ballot is discarded if the final ballot arrives in time to be counted.

So I made a choice that hadn't even gotten onto my preliminary ballot.

The preliminary ballot of the 2004 presidential election was held on October 31, 2004.

Lazzeri, who died in 1946, was elected from a list of 15 former major league players submitted by a screening committee that determined a preliminary ballot.