User blog comment:Mak23686/News about the featured articles/@comment-1859057-20110723021228/@comment-1859057-20110723024816

Bolivianbacon,

The "final decision" in this context is made by a tallying of the "votes," with the crucial difference being that votes must have solid reasoning behind them.

As for nominating the same characters, is it feasible to enforce a "no repeats" rule? Obviously Wikipedia (with 31,000,000+ articles) has that luxury, but I wasn't as sure about this wiki.