Hundreds of votes were cast fraudulently for one finalist in the prestigious Hugo Awards, which honors the best science fiction and fantasy works of the previous year, its administrative team has revealed.
Nearly 10% of votes were deemed fraudulent, with 377 out of 3,813 votes being disqualified. Many votes were made under “obvious fake names,” the Hugo Awards’ administrators said in a statement Monday, explaining that there was “a run of voters whose second names were identical except that the first letter was changed, in alphabetical order,” as well as a “run of voters whose names were translations of consecutive numbers.
The awards team said it had received a “confidential report” that one person had been sponsoring others to join the convention and vote for their preferred candidate. “Finalist A” did not win their category once the discredited votes had been removed, according to the administrators. The Hugo Awards, established in 1953, has 15 categories, including best novel, best short story and best fanzine. Previous winners of the best novel category include J.K.
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