Eurovision considering 'wholly online audience voting'
The proposed system would replace phone and text ballots with online voting and ask viewers to rank three acts to curb tactical voting.
- Earlier this week, the European Broadcasting Union announced major 2027 Eurovision Song Contest rule changes, including a shift to online-only voting and stricter host eligibility criteria.
- These updates follow years of controversy regarding voting campaigns, after an Israeli government agency spent at least $1 million on promotions linked to Eurovision voting, according to reporting by the New York Times.
- Organizers intend to replace the current system, which allows up to 10 votes per payment method, with an online platform requiring viewers to select three acts to dilute bloc voting effects.
- Mandating new eligibility rules, the EBU stated that any country involved in an 'armed conflict' or 'sensitive geopolitical situation' will 'automatically be ineligible to host' the following year's competition.
- The Bulgarian city of Burgas will host the 71st Eurovision Song Contest in May 2027, where all artists must be at least 18 years old on the day of their first rehearsal.
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The EBU is examining the biggest reform of ESC audience voting in years: only online will be voted, viewers would have to name three favorites for it. To pool all votes for a single country would be passé.
Eurovision wants to change voting rules through political campaignsThe European Language Union proposes to translate voting completely online and oblige viewers to choose at least three participants. The changes are aimed at reducing the impact of coordinated campaigns, particularly in the wake of the pro-Israel vote scandal.
The EBU wants to reform the ESC voting. Spectators will vote online for three favorites in the future. Thus, the Broadcasting Union wants to prevent mobilised mass voting for individual countries.
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Viewers have so far been able to vote up to ten times for one contestant in the singing competition, but that may soon be a thing of the past.
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is considering a major overhaul of the Eurovision Song Contest. To prevent the outcome from being influenced and to make the voting fairer, the organization is investigating a switch to a fully online voting system. The organization confirmed this following reports by the Swedish newspaper ‘Aftonbladet’ and the British ‘BBC’.
The European Broadcasting Council is proposing major changes to the voting rules for the Eurovision Song Contest. The new measures are intended to curb voting campaigns aimed at influencing the results.
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