APA uses the Ware System for its presidential elections--a system that allows voters to rank their choices for the office rather than voting for just one candidate.

Under the system, voters rank the candidates in order of preference. Ballots are then counted several times: On each count, the candidate with the lowest number of votes is eliminated from consideration, and the votes for that candidate are transferred to the voters' next choice. Ballots that indicate no additional choice are considered "exhausted."

For the 2005 election, votes received for Jerry H. Clark, who died in September, were redistributed to the voters' next choice.

	1st Count	2nd Count	3rd Count
Larry E. Beutler, PhD	4,478	4,609 (131)	5,382 (773)
Jerry H. Clark, PhD	500
Donald K. Freedheim, PhD	2,009	2,090 (81)
*Ronald F. Levant, PhD	8,579	8,753 (156)	9,389 (654)
Stephen A. Ragusea, PhD	2,390	2,488 (98)	2,876 (388)
Exhausted Ballots		34 (34)	309 (275)
Totals	17,956	17,956	17,956

* Elected