Eurovision finds “irregular voting patterns”
Six countries said to be linked to attempts to manipulate jury voting.
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The European Broadcasting Union has issued a statement following “irregular voting patterns” identified amongst juries during the Eurovision Song Contest.
“In the analysis of jury voting by the European Broadcasting Union’s (EBU) pan-European voting partner after the Second Dress Rehearsal of the Second Semi-Final of the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest, certain irregular voting patterns were identified in the results of six countries.
“In order to comply with the Contest’s Voting Instructions, the EBU worked with its voting partner to calculate a substitute aggregated result for each country concerned for both the Second-Semi Final and the Grand Final (calculated based on the results of other countries with similar voting records).
“This process was acknowledged by the Independent Voting Monitor.
“The EBU takes any suspected attempts to manipulate the voting at the Eurovision Song Contest extremely seriously and has the right to remove such votes in accordance with the Official Voting Instructions, irrespective of whether or not such votes are likely to influence the results and/or outcome of the voting.”
On the official Eurovision.tv website, the names of the jury members of exactly six countries have not been made public: Azerbaijan, Georgia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania and San Marino.
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This explains why the Azerbaijan and Romania results weren’t presented live from those countries on the night due to “technical problems”.
Normally when there is an issue with the presenter’s link, they skip it and try to come back to them. Obviously those countries’ broadcasters didn’t want to present votes that they believed (rightly or wrongly) not to be genuine.
This is incorrect. The live crosses are for the jury votes.
The public votes are presented by the show presenters after the jury votes.