These ministerial nomination decisions may only be taken after the approval of a specific commission.

The Military Academy Selection Board will hold interviews in November and nomination decisions will be made and announced before the end of the year.

Nonetheless, Brown's name was mentioned before Kennedy's and Cuomo's in a New York Times article paragraph about Paterson's final nomination decision thoughts.

Any number of authorities criticize the reforms as having created "too much" democracy, or a badly conceived democracy, leaving too much of the nominations decision up to an allegedly uninformed, unrepresented, and/or uninterested electorate.