Today's interesting development

Someone spent $19,000 dollars to stuff the Hugo Award ballot
box in a way that seems either very, very ineptly or in a
manner calculated to be spotted.

https://glasgow2024.org/hugo-awards/statement-22-july-2024/

Now, I do recall a case in the 1980s, I think, where an exuberant
fan tried to buy a story he liked a Hugo, using consecutively
numbered traveller's checks to buy memberships. So people do
fuck up comprehensively. But it could also be someone really dislikes
Finalist A and wanted to make them look bad.
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