Recently suspended Recording Academy president and CEO Deborah Dugan, who was the first woman to hold the title, says the voting system for the Grammys is "rigged."

In charge of discrimination documents filed with the Los Angeles district office for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Dugan alleged exactly how the Grammys voting process is "ripe [sic] with corruption" and said the system is an example of why she made the previously reported comments on the Academy having a "boys' club" mentality.

A transparent nomination process, she said, is not promoted. Instead, submissions for awards are said to begin with a vote from voting members, after which top 20 selections are looked over by "secret committees" whose members are selected by Head of Awards Bill Freimuth and the Board Chair. These committees, Dugan said, contain members "who represent or have relationships with" potentially nominated artists.

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