Irregular Vote Discovered In 1st Games Logo Selection

TOKYO, JAPAN - DEC. 18: The Tokyo 2020 Paralympics organizing committee announced Friday that the original selection process for the Games logo was partially rigged, but that it had no effect on the eventual logo that had to be scrapped over plagiarism allegations. An investigation by a third-party panel reported that the first round of the original selection process had been fixed. As a result, the submissions of the eight designers who had been asked to join the competition were automatically selected for the second round. The report claimed that Takuma Takasaki of the organizing committee's financial planning office and Hidetoshi Maki, the head of the marketing office, lobbied Kazumasa Nagai, the head of the judging committee, to get votes for two submissions that lacked enough support. Both works, however, were eliminated from contention in the second round. No irregularities were discovered in the process after the first-round, and investigators found the rigged vote had no bearing on the selection of Kenjiro Sano's design -- that would eventually be abandoned.
TOKYO, JAPAN - DEC. 18: The Tokyo 2020 Paralympics organizing committee announced Friday that the original selection process for the Games logo was partially rigged, but that it had no effect on the eventual logo that had to be scrapped over plagiarism allegations. An investigation by a third-party panel reported that the first round of the original selection process had been fixed. As a result, the submissions of the eight designers who had been asked to join the competition were automatically selected for the second round. The report claimed that Takuma Takasaki of the organizing committee's financial planning office and Hidetoshi Maki, the head of the marketing office, lobbied Kazumasa Nagai, the head of the judging committee, to get votes for two submissions that lacked enough support. Both works, however, were eliminated from contention in the second round. No irregularities were discovered in the process after the first-round, and investigators found the rigged vote had no bearing on the selection of Kenjiro Sano's design -- that would eventually be abandoned.
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