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[–] random_character_a@lemmy.world 29 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Well Finlands religious nutters and MAGA-style right wing Elon Musk fan boys were certainly provoked to vote for Israel... again.

Song was not that special and we ended up giving Israel 12 points... again.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

A few hundred people can buy enough voted for an entire country. NYT released an article about it a few days ago.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

We tend not to vote in the first place, especially when votes are the most expensive in the entire EU - cheapest was 0,13€ in Denmark, while it was 1,5€/vote here. Someone calculated that based on some previous years with 10 max votes, you could easily get the first place with just something like 1000 people voting the max amount. (And possibly even a lot fewer, as it was max 10 votes per payment method, so one person could use multiple to stack on votes)