However, the new voting system, an expanded pool and a plurality vote, has helped some overdue folk, like Jon Hamm and Amy Poehler, win the past two years.
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It’s always an honor to be nominated for an Emmy, but one of the downsides of working in series television is that you can rack up those nominations year after year without winning.