voting

Following the reintroduction of juries for the voting in the final of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, the EBU has decided to extend this to include the semi-finals.

Neighbour points doesn’t exist between Azerbaijan and Armenia – the political fight between the two countries have resulted in Azerbaijani police questioning people who voted for Armenia in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest.  They are being classified as a potential security threat.

As promised a couple of days ago, the European Broadcasting Union has released the complete results from this year’s contest. This means that we can now see how the public voted, and how the juries voted.

In an announcement made on video website, Youtube, the EBU has announced that the results of the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest will be revealed.

Much interest in the voting for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest centered on the introduction of juries in each country to vote alongside the public phone vote.

Ukraine complains about EBU forcing them to announce 8 points to Russia when they insist that it wasn’t their points and Armenia is saying that Azerbaijani TV wasn’t showing the voting number for Armenia properly.

After a little chock yesterday where Sakis Rouvas collapsed during rehearsals Greece continues the preparations for the big show tonight where a combination of jury and televoting will decide which song Sakis will sing in Moscow. You are invited to be a part of the international jury.

In the first heat of this year’s Melodifestivalen the voting record for any Swedish opening was broken – and the second heat gave yet another record. The previous voting record for any Melodifestivalen semi-final heat was beaten with more than 60.000 votes.

Saturday’s opening of Melodifestivalen 2009 was popular among the Swedish TV viewers. The first heat was seen by nearly 3.3 million people. More than 720.000 votes were submitted which is record for a first heat in Sweden.