Dozens of artists participating in the Venice Biennale are threatening legal action unless their names are removed from a public voting ballot tied to the event’s awards. Multiple outlets report that the Biennale includes a visitor ballot in which attendees vote to determine the best artist and the top pavilion. The artists say their participation in this process is not the same as the Biennale’s more traditional approach, where awards are typically decided by a jury of experts. They are demanding removal of their names from the ballot, indicating that the use of their identities in a public vote is improper or unacceptable to them. The reports do not specify the legal basis for the threatened lawsuits, nor do they detail any immediate response from Biennale organizers. The dispute centers on how awards are decided—public voting by visitors versus selection by expert jury—and on the artists’ insistence that their names should not appear in the ballot used for those awards.