More than 10 Nominations per MOC?

[Roadking]

Vacancies
Each U.S. Senator and Representative may have a maximum of five charged cadets or midshipmen at each service academy at one time. A Member of Congress may nominate up to ten candidates for each vacancy (more than one of these nominees may be selected for an appointment, but only one will be recorded as a “charge”)

I copied the above passage from a PDF entitled Congressional Guide to Service Academy Nominations. The interesting part is the statement that each MOC May nominate up to ten candidates for each vacancy. Does this mean that if the MOC has say 2 vacancies for a particular service academy then that MOC could nominate 20 applicants for his or her district to that academy for that year?

 

[A1Janitor]

10 per slate. They can have more than one slate in any given year.

What if no nominations are appointed one year for instance?

 

[shiner]

Yes, they will publish two slates of 10 for consideration to the SA for an appointment. As I understand it, should their nominations not be qualified, the slot would be given to another candidate from a different district as part of the qualified alternate pool.

 

[Roadking]

Yes, they will publish two slates of 10 for consideration to the SA for an appointment. As I understand it, should their nominations not be qualified, the slot would be given to another candidate from a different district as part of the qualified alternate pool.

Could the same applicant be on both slates? Or does that not make sense?

 

[dddad]

Yes. MOC could submit same slate 2 times.

 

[Parent of 4]

You would think it would be the same slate twice or how would you do it? I would be crazy to put candidates 1-10 on one list and 11-20 on the other thereby theoretically giving #11 a better chance for appointment than #2..

 

[A1Janitor]

You would think it would be the same slate twice or how would you do it? I would be crazy to put candidates 1-10 on one list and 11-20 on the other thereby theoretically giving #11 a better chance for appointment than #2..

They can do whatever they want.

What seems fair to me - I would rank the 20 in order and put the odds on one slate and evens on second slate.

Also - how the MOC ranks them isn’t necessarily how the SA ranks them.

 

[USMA 1994]

Each opening is independent of the others in terms of how the slate is submitted. The individuals can be duplicated on each slate or be 20 different individuals. They can also submit two unranked slates, two principal nominees with ranked alternates or two principal nominees with unranked alternates. They can also submit a combination of both like one principal slate with unranked alternates and one unranked slates. The staff members are usually good at understanding the process and know how it works.