Sunday’s winner of the Fat Bear Week competition in Alaska was determined to have received tens of thousands of fraudulent votes, according to the competition’s organizers.
The Katmai National Park, which holds a bracket-style competition for bears photographed in the Alaskan park, overturned the election results between Bear 747 and Holly.
Bear 747 won with 37,940 votes versus Holly’s 30,430 after deleting more than 7,000 false votes.
The competition will determine the chubbiest animal prior to hibernation.
After discovering the fraudulent ballots, the National Park tweeted, “Stopped by TSA for smuggling fish, [Holly] missed her connection as a 747 plane cleared the runway.”
This capacious cargo ship reached the finals with the aid of a favorable tailwind.
Bear 747 was declared the true champion of the 2022 Fat Bear Week semi-final bracket after organizers discovered more than 7,000 fraudulent votes for his opponent.
Holly (above), the 2019 Fat Bear Week contest winner, received only 30,430 actual votes, while 747 received 37,940 votes.
Many Twitter users were devastated by Holly’s defeat as the 2019 Fat Bear Week champion, but many couldn’t help but draw parallels to the 2020 presidential election.
Referring to the riots on January 6 that were spurred by unsubstantiated rumors that the presidential election was stolen, Twitter user Liz St Clair remarked, “NOOOOoooooo I was so excited to see Holly in the lead.” I have the urge to invade the national parks on January 6th.
Another Twitter user with the username HottenAnnie joined the joke, adding, “Be cautious. We do not want individuals to violently invade the park.
Others tweeted ‘STOP THE THEFT’ and ‘STOP THE COUNT,’ the campaign slogans used by former President Donald Trump against Joe Biden.
Bear 747 advances to the semi-final stage of the Katmai National Park’s yearly competition. His opponent will be determined after the votes are counted on Monday night.
Many on Twitter made humorous comparisons between the cheating controversy and the upcoming 2020 presidential race.
Bear 747 will compete against the winner of Monday’s election in the finals, thanks to his recent success.
As he prepared for hibernation, the bear, believed to weigh roughly 1,400 pounds, was observed fishing daily at Brooks Falls between late June and mid-September.
Rangers of the national park observed that 747 was one of the dominant bears in the forest, and while bears typically engage in combat to demonstrate their dominance, they remarked that 747 maintains his position ‘by sheer size alone.’
The bear already won the competition for the 2020 Fat Bear Week.