Suspected attempts to manipulate the jury voting – The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) removes the jury votes from six countries.
Instead an "aggregated result" for each country was calculated and used instead. - Georgia - Azerbaijan
Flemish broadcaster VRT has claimed that the six national juries with irregular voting patterns wanted to team up to give each other points.
In 2014, the EBU blocked Georgia’s jury score after they found that scores of the jury members were too similar. Most recently, in 2019, Belarus’ final jury result was infamously annulled after jury members had spoken about their favourites publicly in the media. It’s not the first time that the EBU has decided to scrap jury scores.
The Romanian public broadcaster TVR accused that the organiser of the Eurovision Song Contest, EBU, has “changed the rules during the game,” asked why its ...
Moldova’s jury gave its 12 points to the UK of its own free will and was not invalidated. In other countries, such as would-be EU candidates Moldova and Ukraine, the juries were apparently more in line with the EBU’s recommendations - but their vote in favour of the United Kingdom puzzled the public. But the juries in six countries, including Romania (plus Azerbaidjan, Georgia, Montenegro, Poland and San Marino), were surprisingly invalidated on unspecified grounds, while the votes of juries in other countries (including Moldova) diverged radically from the views expressed by the public, raising suspicions.
A Eurovision scandal has been revealed as organisers admit that they found “irregular voting patterns” from six countries and subsequently removed their ...
However, European Broadcasting Union (EBU) publicly announced that they noticed “unusual voting patterns” from the jury’s votes from Azerbaijan, Georgia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania and San Marino. Australia was represented by former The Voice contestant Sheldon Riley in the 2022 Eurovision competition. Eurovision is an international songwriting competition that’s judged by both the public and a panel of judges from varying countries.
Six countries had their votes removed and replaced with an aggregated result in the 2022 Eurovision song content held in Italy.
Ryder told BBC News: "This is the tip of an iceberg. Earlier in the year they removed Russia from competing and excluded them from the event on account of the Ukraine invasion. The 2022 Eurovision song contest saw favourites Ukraine win the competition with a whopping score of 631 points.