This could potentially apply to First Past the Post Voting whereby multiple candidates can be voted for and each would receive 1 vote. Example being a voter must select 7 boys and 7 girls out of the maximum number of candidates. Each of the 7 candidates from either election category would receive 1 vote.
brendan vince
Allow for the students to select 7 girls and 7 boys with the results showing the total number of votes for each student