Voter fraud wreaks havoc at recent music awards

An incident of voter fraud altered five out of six publicly voted winners of the 2024 Music Victoria Awards.
A "well-executed" act of voter fraud was detected for the 2024 Music Victoria Awards. A sun-filled lecture space with a screen displaying "MUSIC VICTORIA".

An email from Music Victoria was sent to members on 27 November bringing their attention to a detected voter fraud that altered the outcome of five out of six publicly voted categories in the 2024 Music Victoria Awards.

The state peak body for contemporary music moved quickly to investigate its third-party voting system, Award Force, as well as liaise with cyber security experts and obtain legal advice, through which it uncovered a confirmed instance of “well-executed act of fraud”.

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Celina Lei is the Diversity and Inclusion Editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Most recently, Celina was one of three Australian participants in DFAT’s the Future of Leadership program. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram @lleizy_