Re:Partisanship at Eurovision is becoming more blatant
by mcv on Saturday May 12, 2018 @07:03AM
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> Decentralize the vote to the public and you destroy the risk of collusion. This is endemic in centralized systems.
Quite the opposite. It's exactly the decentralisation of the vote that caused this.
In the past, when one person or committee per country voted, only the UK and Germany voted disproportionally for each other. After the switch to public voting, lots of countries now vote for their neighbours. Clearly, the general public is less cosmopolitan than that committee, and tends to vote for countries they know or feel related to, or understand the music or cultural references from.
In the past, when one person or committee per country voted, only the UK and Germany voted disproportionally for each other. After the switch to public voting, lots of countries now vote for their neighbours. Clearly, the general public is less cosmopolitan than that committee, and tends to vote for countries they know or feel related to, or understand the music or cultural references from.