@Locusmag Doesn't seem to be any way to not "accept" all the cookies. You can't even read the cookie policy without accepting them, sight unseen, first! FFS!!
So I didn't read the article. These days anything without an immediately obvious "reject all" button doesn't get read.
This moose bit the bullet and accepted the cookies (I will now need to try and see what was set).
Gist of article: "377 votes for a single finalist were disallowed because they were clearly the result of an organised and paid-for ballot rigging campaign. As a result that finalist ("Finalist A") has not won anything. No other information will be made available for confidentiality reasons."
Looks like the Hugo committee have things well in hand.
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File770 has the full statement without forcing you to accept Google's cookies.
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Possibly, but I wouldn't bet on that. Following the "Sad Puppy Affair" there was a large amount of interest taken in ballot analysis with a view to detecting vote-rigging attempts in the future, and I suspect the screening and statistical profiling of voting patterns have only improved since then. (Last Year's problems were somewhat further up the scale: it's difficult to defend against state or country-level actors, especially if they get to the staff.)
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