Ha Ha, Like We Didn't Know Already!

[DJHawkes]

http://uk.tv.yahoo.com/eurovision-to-be-investigated-after-fixing-allegations-%E2%80%93-daily-tv-round-up-094841873.html

[ichkeria]

The Eurovision Song Contest used to have a jury-only voting system.
Then it changed to audience-participation via tele-voting only.
But that wasn't ideal either as it meant ex-pats abroad could still vote for their own country, and plainly did so - for example Estonia suddenly started giving 10 points to Russia.
So a few years ago they introduced a part-jury part-televoting system which seems to have helped.
The problem is it that I've never seen an explanation of how that actually worked.
I actually suspect that there's very little if any actual bribery. To have any real overall effect it would need to be on a major scale. But on the other hand maybe the bribers are too stupid to realise that.

[tonyav]

Well I never, what ever next !.

[DJHawkes]

I'm more surprised that people ever thought it was ligit than the fact they are investigating the alleged bribes

[marval]

Oh what a surprise

[tonyav]

LOL, it ain't been legit since Bucks Fizz won it dot !.

[ichkeria]

It's hard to see what the point is in Azerbaijan bribing the Maltese jury, for example. Or for that matter Russia bribing Azerbaijan. I suppose it might aid the respectability of the voting figures to prevent the embarrassment of the dreaded nul points

[ichkeria]

...given all countries are supposed to use televoting for 50% of the votes, if there was fixing going on it would also involve defrauding the televoters. Quite a serious issue in theory.

[DJHawkes]

there's nowt serious about eurovision , lol

[joggerjayne]

They are really taking the show seriously enough to bother with an investigation.

Come on !!