Tony Award Process???

Can you guys please explain to me how the nominations are made and how the winner is eventually voted? Thank you.

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Here's the list of nominators from last year:

Maureen Anderman, actor
Ira Bernstein, general manager
Stephen Bogardus, actor
Schuyler G. Chapin, cultural executive
Kirsten Childs, musical theatre writer
Veronica Claypool, managing director
Betty Corwin, theatre archivist
Gretchen Cryer, composer
Jacqueline Z. Davis, arts library executive/booking agent
Merle Debuskey, press agent
Edgar Dobie, managing director
Nancy Ford, lyricist
Micki Grant, composer
David Marshall Grant, actor/playwright
Julie Hughes, casting director
Betty Jacobs, script consultant
Geoffrey Johnson, casting director
David Lindsay-Abaire, playwright
Enid Nemy, journalist
Gilbert Parker, agent
Shirley Rich, casting director
Judith O. Rubin, arts executive
Bill Schelble, press representative
Rosemarie Tichler, producer/casting director
William Tynan, journalist
Jon Wilner, producer

They make the nominations and the 700 Tony voters from around the country (most are in New York) choose the winners.
http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/about/awards.html

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Wait - I thought it was a rule that the producers of a nominated show cannot vote in a category that their show is nominated in, making it impossible to vote for themselves. Is that true?

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