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Azerbaijan vote rigging
Prior to the finals, the Lithuanian media outlet 15 min released an undercover video suggesting that representatives from Azerbaijan were trying to bribe Lithuanians for votes. The video detailed the plan, which involved recruiting groups of 10 people each, and supplying them with SIM cards so they could vote multiple times during the voting window. It was also suggested that similar activity was taking place in a total of 15 countries including Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, Ukraine, Croatia and Switzerland. In response to the allegations, Executive Supervisor Jon Ola Sand reaffirmed the contest's commitment to a "fair and transparent result." He stated that while Eurovision organisers were looking into the case, they "[emphasised] that the intention of these individuals have not yet been clarified, and nor has a link been established between the individuals in the video and the Azeri delegation, the Azeri act or the Azeri EBU member Ictimai TV." He added that, since 1998, when he was first involved with the contest, "every year there are rumors about irregularities in the voting".

When Azerbaijan officially awarded no points to Dina Garipova of Russia, despite Garipova having reportedly come second in the country's phone poll, the Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev ordered an inquiry. The Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov claimed that the result had been falsified, and stated that "this outrageous action will not remain without a response". He promised a co-ordinated response with his Azerbaijani counterpart Elmar Mammadyarov. Simultaneously, the Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko claimed that his own country having received no points from Russia showed that the result must have been falsified. In June 2013, UK entrant Bonnie Tyler also claimed she overheard Russians complaining that Azerbaijan did not "give us the ten points we paid for." Event supervisor Sietse Bakker said the claims were being investigated by the European Broadcasting Union as well.

Split voting results
The following five members comprised the Swedish jury:
 * Michael Cederberg – Chairperson – playlist manager P3 radio, radio host
 * Robert Sehlberg – music director at RIX FM radio
 * Oscar Zia – singer
 * Sacha Jean-Baptiste – dancer, choreographer, creative director
 * Elli Flemström – artist, member of J.E.M

Final
The Italy votes in the Final were based on 50% jury voting and 50% televoting results

In the televoting/sms household shall not permitted to vote more than three times in 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003. unkonwn in 1997, 1998. but 1999 and from 2004 there are no rules....

http://www.expressen.se/noje/melodifestivalen/schlager-guide-alla-latarna-i-semifinalen/ ==

http://esctoday.com/6519/eurovision_song_contest_full/ http://esctoday.com/4569/more_information_on_the_televoting/ http://esctoday.com/4644/kyiv_2005_over_5_million_calls_and_sms_votes/ http://esctoday.com/4693/svante_stockselius_no_irregularities_in_moldova/

The Moldovan votes in the first semi-final were based on 100% jury voting results. In case of technical issues with the televoting or an insufficient amount of votes, the Rules of the Eurovision Song Contest state that 100% jury voting shall apply

Diaspora voting
There is also said to exist "diaspora voting" in the televoting/sms(not in the jury http://esctoday.com/15910/eurovision_results_analysis_voting_blocs__diasporas/ ) where immigrants vote for their origin countries  These could be examples of diaspora voting: http://www.theguardian.com/culture/tvandradioblog/2007/may/14/alloverbarthesinging

Germany, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark and France to Turkey http://wiwibloggs.com/2013/05/19/ebu-bends-rules-so-turkey-can-return/27210/

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/tvandradioblog/2007/may/14/alloverbarthesinging


 * Germany, Belgium, Netherlands and France each have awarded at least 8 points to Turkey in all 7 recent contests from 2003 to 2009.
 * Netherlands, Cyprus, Germany, Spain, Greece, Czech Republic, Israel, Poland, Russia, Turkey, Georgia, Bulgaria, Belgium and France to Armenia
 * Netherlands, Czech Republic, Georgia, Poland, Russia, Turkey, Belgium and France all have awarded at least 10 points to Armenia in all 3 recent contests from 2006 to 2008.
 * Spain to Romania and Bulgaria
 * France to Portugal, Serbia and Israel
 * Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Austria, and Switzerland to Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia
 * Hungary to Romania
 * Portugal to Ukraine and Romania
 * United Kingdom to Ireland, Poland, Turkey, Latvia, Lithuania, Greece and Cyprus
 * Ireland to Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and United Kingdom
 * Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine, Israel, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, Moldova to Russia
 * Germany to Turkey, Greece, Russia, Poland, Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina
 * Greece to Albania, Bulgaria and Ukraine
 * Israel to Russia, Ukraine and Romania
 * France, Belgium and Switzerland to Spain
 * Cyprus to Russia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Armenia and Georgia
 * Switzerland to Portugal
 * Spain, Portugal, Cyprus, Greece to United Kingdom.
 * Andorra to Spain, Portugal

As of 2008, the winner of the contest is decided by 50% televote and 50% national jury vote. The winners of all previous contests had been decided exclusively by televoting. Between 2003 and 2005 and since 2011 viewers had around 10 minutes to vote after all the songs had been performed. Between 2006 and 2010 the televoting lines have been open throughout the programme. . Profits made from the televoting during the 2007 and 2008 contests were donated to UNICEF.