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From: Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com>
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Subject: Re: Today's interesting development
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2024 19:47:09 -0400
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On 7/22/2024 4:01 PM, James Nicoll wrote:
> 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.

Or -- conceivably -- someone who dislikes the Hugo award as an institution.