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Hugo Awards Disqualification Statement

https://locusmag.com/2024/07/hugo-awards-disqualification-statement/

Glasgow 2024, A Worldcon for our Futures, released the following statement today: In the course of tallying the votes on the final ballot for the 2024 Hugo Awards, the Glasgow 2024 Hugo Administrat…

Pretty amazing considering the 2023 fiasco.

5 comments

zabadoh

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So the only reason they were caught because the fraudsters were lazy incompetent boobs, and didn't bother to generate real-sounding names for fake voters.

AFKBRBChocolate

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Sure looks that way.

geekwithsoul

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Yeah, hopefully they put some safeguards in place because they won’t be so lazy next time.

Olap

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Sadly it seems we need to have some ID checks now in place then. Making it more costly to run, and a barrier to voting too meaning results likely to be less typical of the population. This is why we can't have nice things

AFKBRBChocolate

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Agreed, I was thinking the same.