[I'm guilty of this a lot of times. I love throwing sympathy votes to great films that I thought will be shut out here in any of our HTF tournaments. Hey, the superior film will win anyway. I know (who have'nt voted yet) somebody here who dislike Hitchcock's films so much that they will for sure vote against Notorious. ]
But if the tournament rule states that in case of a tie, the tie-breaker will favor the film which gets more cumulative votes in previous votings then ...