National broadcasters for Spain and Belgium have now complained to the competition’s organisers, the European Broadcasting Union, after Israel won the public vote by a large margin.
RTVE, Spain’s public broadcaster, and VRT, the Flemish broadcasting company, are demanding that organisers investigate the televoting system, which allows voters at home to vote up to 20 times for a small cost charged to each vote by text or phone call.
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The EBU confirmed that RTVE and VRT had been in contact and said it took the complaints “seriously”.
Martin Green, the director of Eurovision, said: “It is important to emphasise that the voting operation for the Eurovision Song Contest is the most advanced in the world and each country’s result is checked and verified by a huge team of people to exclude any suspicious or irregular voting patterns.”
I got many YouTube ads telling me to vote for her song up to 20 times (ads didn’t mention Israel, just name and song)
It’s obvious that it has been manipulated as you don’t go from #14 to #2 overnight with votes evenly spread around many countries, especially when the song is not a hit
They intentionally chose her, because being a survivor of that terrorist attack, they can push the “see? Hamas bad, they killed 1000 innocent Israelis”
Every year Israel gets millions of votes that don’t match the song listening stats