Winning A VC By Popular Vote

HAVE you ever heard of someone winning the Victoria Cross by ballot, ie as the result of a vote?
It sounds far-fetched, but apparently it used to happen.
I only found out about it after coming across this striking memorial, to Able Seaman Albert McKenzie, beside Tower Bridge Road in Bermondsey, South London.

He took part in a raid on Zebrugge in German-occupied Belgium in April 1918 in which most of the storming party of which he was a member were killed.
According to Wikipedia, 19-year-old McKenzie "landed with his machine-gun in the face of great difficulties, (accounting) for several of the enemy ... and was severely wounded whilst working his gun in an exposed position."
McKenzie was presented with his VC by George V at Buckingham Palace, only to die later in the year from Spanish Flu.
So far, interesting enough, but not especially remarkable, and there is no mention of there being a ballot before McKenzie was awarded his medal.
However, go to the Wikipedia entry for the Zeebrugge Raid, as opposed to the entry for McKenzie, and this can be found:
"The Zeebrugge Raid was promoted by Allied propaganda as a British victory and ultimately resulted in the awarding of eight Victoria Crosses. The 4th Battalion Royal Marines was awarded the Victoria Cross for the action. Under Rule 13 of the Victoria Cross warrant, a ballot was stipulated [to] select the recipients. Victoria Cross rules specify that four Victoria Crosses should be awarded this way (one to an officer, one to an NCO and two to other ranks) they were not observed and only two Victoria Crosses were awarded. This was the last time that Victoria Crosses were awarded by ballot, although the rule remained within the Victoria Cross warrant. In a mark of respect to those involved in the raid the Royal Marines have never raised another 4th Battalion. A ballot was similarly held for the crews of the assault vessels for the Zeebrugge Mole (Vindictive, Royal Daffodil and Iris II) and the embarked raiding parties. Following the ballot, Victoria Crosses were awarded to Albert Edward McKenzie and Alfred Carpenter."

The Wikipedia entry is slightly confusing, and needs tidying up by someone with more specialist knowledge than myself, but I have checked elsewhere and it seems the VC could - and still can, theoretically - be awarded by a vote of the personnel who took part in an action if it is otherwise extremely difficult to distinguish between the bravery of those involved.