Eurovision Public Voting

[pipdawg]

Please can someone explain again how the Eurovision public voting works.  How are votes from potentially millions of people whittled down to a score in the hundreds (or less in some cases!?!)

[naomi24]

Do the public vote?  I thought each country had judges watching.  I don't watch it so I don't know.

[ynnafymmi]

I dont watch it either Naomi,but im pleased that the Israelis recieved the highest public vote in Eurovision history,even from the anti-semitic Irish and Norwegians.Just shows the Irish or Norwegian governments dont really represent their own people.

[THECORBYLOON]

Folk in each participating country vote for their favourite song.

The one receiving the most votes in a country is awarded twelve votes, second gets ten votes and the ones in third to tenth are awarded eight to one point.

The same method is used to allocate points from votes in the rest of the world as a whole.

 

[barry1010]

Anyone in the world can vote, they don't have to be from a participating country.

[Mozz71]

15:40 That's right. The non-Eurovision countries are added together and treated as one big country.

[Untitled]

"but im pleased that the Israelis recieved the highest public vote in Eurovision history"

they were using bots 

[ynnafymmi]

Aye,right.You're a Bot hun.

[Untitled]

it is so obvious that's what they were doing lol. 

[barry1010]

How would they know where people are voting from online? VPN would distort that 

[Untitled]

each country casts several votes that are worth a certain amount of points ranging from 12 to 1. the votes are apportioned according to their popularity.  
 

so the song which receives the most votes in the uk will get the uk public's 12 points... the second most popular will get their 10 etc. 

these are added up across all countries for a final total of public votes for each song.

 

[Untitled]

exactly barry. until recently nobody cared enough to abuse the system... it is not difficult to bypass. 
 

the last couple of years however has seen massively israeli interference in favour of their entries. 

[naomi24]

How would you know that, untitled - and if you do why don't the organisers also know and do something about it?

[Untitled]

because they don't care.

[ToraToraTora]

the winning song was terrible, this stopped being a song contest 30 years ago.

[naomi24]

Nonsense.  

[Untitled]

i liked the winning song. my favourite was italy though which i voted for twice  :)

there were actually quite a few decent entries this year i thought

[naomi24]

^that to untitled.

[ToraToraTora]

It now has nothing to do with the songs, the votes are based on who likes/hates who.

[Prudie]

So was Israel the only country to use bots and all the other public votes were legit? Mind you the whole thing has been a farce for years. Enjoyable mindless spectacle admittedly.

[Untitled]

the voting is very often politically motivated yes. but i think this year some good songs did place quite high regardless. i liked the italian entry and the estonian one which were both top 5 and i thought the winner was deserving. i also liked ukraine's entry which was 9th. the british one was good but unfortunately didn't do very well.