Logies organiser TV Week: The voting process is fairer than ever
The publisher of TV Week has responded to widespread criticism of the Logies Awards voting process following controversy over the shortlist for this year’s TV popularity contest.
Much of the speculation focused on the appearance of Ten’s The Circle presenter Chrissie Swan on three shortlists despite her relatively low profile.
There were also questions overt the absence of The Gruen Transfer from the light entertainment category and Wil Anderson and Shaun Micallef from the gold nominations.
But TV Week has issued a statement saying that the voting was run by Roy Morgan research and scrutinsed by auditor Ernst & Young. It said:
That video isn’t a good indicator of how unknown Chrissie Swan is. If you asked people who Jessica Marais was, I think you’d get the same responses. Does that mean her Gold Logie nomination is also undeserved?
I’m at work when The Circle is on but I can vouch for Chrissie Swan being totally awesome. I remember her from her stint as the normal one in the Big Brother house one year. Pretty sure she said she was a copywriter back then.
Can someone involved explain how they ensured that there was only one vote per person? What was the registration and validation process? Surely they don’t mean one vote per cookie.