This article examines, from the perspective of international institutional law, the variety of procedural problems which arose following an online vote by secret ballot taken by the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (iotc) in 2021. By providing a detailed case-study of this novel instance of practice and the challenges it represents, this article aims to contribute to a better understanding of the institutional governance and procedural legal framework of regional fisheries management organizations (rfmo s). It first analyses the vote and the challenge to its validity. This article then constructs a taxonomy of the various procedural irregularities that were found to have occurred, the responsibility of institutional actors for their occurrence, and their legal consequences. The final substantive sections of this article examine how the iotc ultimately dealt with the situation and what potential role the available dispute settlement procedures could have had in addressing the discussed procedural irregularities.

本文从国际制度法的角度审视印度洋金枪鱼委员会（ iotc ）于2021年进行无记名投票的网络投票后出现的各种程序问题。通过对这一新颖案例进行详细的案例研究本文旨在探讨实践及其所代表的挑战，旨在帮助更好地理解区域渔业管理组织（rfmo  ）的机构治理和程序法律框架。它首先分析了投票结果以及对其有效性的质疑。然后，本文对已发现的各种程序违规行为、机构行为者对其发生的责任及其法律后果进行了分类。本文最后的实质性部分探讨了国际奥委会最终如何处理这种情况，以及现有的争端解决程序在解决所讨论的程序违规行为方面可能发挥的潜在作用。