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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Today's interesting development
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 01:19:10 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: Public Access Networks Corp.
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In article <v7mr1t$s1a5$1@dont-email.me>,
Ahasuerus  <ahasuerus@email.com> wrote:
>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.

What a half-assed attack, then. 
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