Georgia’s jury is accused of cheating; the votes of the 5 member panel were not included which means a 100% televote was used this Saturday when the results were presented by Nodi Tatishvili and Sophie Gelovani (Georgia 2013 representatives). As it turns out, all five jury members had the exact Top 8 songs (same order) which is statistically basically impossible. …

As of today new rules have been applied to Melodifestivalen, P4 Sjuhärad (radio station) was able to reveal that representants for an artist in Melodifestivalen had been buying thousands of votes with the help of a telerobot. As an example Bert Karlsson (entrepreneur label manager) can confirm that cheating have existed since the webjoker came along. He was offered to …

The content of this editorial does not necessarily reflect the opinions and views of ESC United, its editorial board or its readers. A couple of days ago the European Broadcasting Union announced that they would tighten measures to ensure voting integrity. I am not going to repeat everything that has been said so feel free to read more HERE as well …