Voting at the Eurovision Song Contest
After the widespread use of telephone voting in 1998, the contest organizers resorted to juries only in the event of a televoting malfunctions.Irish broadcaster RTÉ did not receive the polling results from Eircom in time, and substituted votes by a panel of judges.[3] Between 1997 and 2003, the first years of televoting, lines were opened to the public for only five minutes after the performance and recap of the final song.The United Kingdom is not able to vote via SMS or the smartphone app, due to legislation implemented after the 2007 British premium-rate phone-in scandal.The European Broadcasting Union, the producers of the contest, later began contacting international juries by telephone.Beginning with the 2019 contest, the televoting points are announced by the presenters based on the juries' rankings, in reverse order.In 1969, this resulted in a four-way tie for first place, between the UK, the Netherlands, France, and Spain, with no tie-breaking procedure.[19][20] As the number of participating countries and the voting systems have varied throughout the contest's history, it may be more relevant to compare what percentage of all points awarded in the competition each song received, computed from the published scoreboards.This table shows the top ten participating songs, both winning and non-winning, by the number of points received.[22] A tie-break procedure was implemented after the 1969 contest, in which France, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom tied for first place.The French entry, "Le Dernier qui a parlé..." performed by Amina, finished second, with the smallest-ever losing margin.[26] As each participating country casts a series of preference votes, under the current scoring system it is rare that a song fails to receive any points at all.[33] The first time a host nation ever finished with nul points was in the 2015 final, when Austria's "I Am Yours", by The Makemakes, scored zero.by Iris received two points in the televoting-only hypothetical results from the Albanian jury, since Albania did not use televoting.[36] In his book, Nul Points, comic writer Tim Moore interviews several of these performers about how their Eurovision score affected their careers.[48] The most common examples are Cyprus and Greece, Moldova and Romania, Belarus and Russia, and the Nordic countries.Votes may also be based on a diaspora: Greece, Turkey, Poland, Lithuania, Russia and the former Yugoslav countries normally get high scores from Germany or the United Kingdom, Armenia gets votes from France and Belgium, Poland from Ireland, Romania from Spain and Italy, and Albania from Switzerland, Italy and San Marino.This approach allows the sampling comparison over arbitrary periods consistent with the unbiased assumption of voting patterns.This methodology also allows for a sliding time window to accumulate a degree of collusion over the years, producing a weighted network.The previous results are supported and the changes over time provide insight into the collusive behaviours given more or less choice.
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