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This messy situation demands a lot of trust of the organisers—trust they do not have, after they corruptly tampered with the 2023 votes and tried to cover that up.

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Who's "they"? Each year's Worldcon is run by an entirely different set of people.

Incorrect, there has historically been a "Permanent Floating WorldCon Committee" [1] that has provided a lot of continuity. Sometime they have fill higher ranking slots when the locals don't have enough experience.

[1] https://fancyclopedia.org/Permanent_Floating_Worldcon_Commit...

While the organisers have changed, up until this year the same person has written the un-audited software and run the voting process previously - which was how he was able to discard huge numbers of votes covertly last year, for example.

> which was how he was able to discard huge numbers of votes covertly last year

I don't think it was very covert–the conference organizers are required to release their data, which they did, and the voting issues were immediately apparent.

Well, it was initially covert, and he stalled both the results and then the votes, both under pressure around the "clean up" he was doing.

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