XI.
VOTING PROCEDURE: TELEVOTING AND JURY
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For the voting
procedure during the Contest Final, each
participant should preferably use a mix
of 50% televoting and 50% jury results,
or 100% televoting if the latter is more
suited to the need of its audience; only
in case of exceptional reasons, a 100%
jury voting procedure may be allowed;
upon approval by the Permanent Services.
In case of a tie when using a mix of
televoting and jury results, televoting
shall prevail.
At the head of delegations' meeting
mentioned in Art. IX.2 above, each
participant shall inform the Permanent
Services which mode of voting it intends
to use during the Contest Final.
Participants requiring assistance in
setting up televoting should seek advice
from the Permanent Services. |
| 1. |
Televoting
procedures |
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Participants using
televoting for their voting sequence
shall respect the following conditions:
| (a) |
Participants
which have not successfully
conducted a national telepoll
within the last three years must
seek advice from the Permanent
Services. |
| (b) |
Participants
must be able to accomodate 23
different telephone numbers with
the numbers ending with digits
between 01 and 24. |
| (c) |
All participants
shall have a stand-by jury of
eight people (constituted in the
same was as the traditional
jury). |
| (d) |
Participants shall
work closely with the main
national telephone network
operator and receive assurances
from it that the televote will
not cause disruption to emergency
service calls. |
| (e) |
Voters are not
allowed to vote for their own
country of residence. To minimize
the risk of national lobby groups
voting for their own song in
other countries, telephone
numbers must be used that cannot
be dialled across frontiers (or
for which international calls can
be excluded from the total
count). No household shall be
permitted to vote mroe than three
times. |
| (f) |
The televote must be
capable of being run and
completed within five minutes. |
| (g) |
The lines provided
to answer calls must be equally
accessible to any of the numbers
being rung. |
| (h) |
The telephone
network must ensure that callers
from all around the country
concerned stand an equal chance
of sucessfully calling in. |
| (i) |
Participants must
keep the results of calls made to
all numbers and provide these
results to the Permanent Services
after the Contest Final. These
results must be checked and
certified by a notary. |
| (j) |
Participants must
ensure that they can announce the
result within a tight
seven-minute time-frame. It is
recommended that this element
should be rehearsed before the
Final Contest. |
| (k) |
Participants shall
promote the benefits of the
televoting system within their
country through positive public
relations. |
| (l) |
The start time and
cut-off time for counting the
votes must be exactly the same
for all numbers used in the
televote within any country. In
particular, the call-counter (the
logger) must be set at zero at
the moment when the public is
invited to start ringing after it
has heard all the songs. Any
calls made before that time must
be discounted. |
| (m) |
Within each country
the cost of voting or the rate at
which calls are charged must be
the same for all people. Use of a
national premium-rate code or
other non-geographic code will
ensure this. It is accepted that
the cost of registering a
televote will vary from one
country to another. |
| (n) |
Participants shall
comply with the recommendation of
the producing organization on how
the televote should be presented
(i.e. in terms of graphics,
commentators, etc.). |
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| 2. |
Jury procedures |
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In case a mixed
procedure is used (50% televoting/50%
jury) or in case televoting is not
posible, the following jury rules shall
apply. The same rules shall apply for the
stand-by jury.
| (a) |
The
participant shall appoint a
national jury of eight members.
The names of the members of the
national juries may not be
disclosed until the day after the
Cotnest Final. Four members of
each national jury must be
representatives of the public in
the country, the other four being
music professionals. There should
be an equal number of men and
women on each jury, with four
jurors aged below 30 and four
above 30 years of age. Only one
of the four professional jurors
may be connected with a record
company or music publisher. The
composition of these juries may
be completely different from that
of the jury or juries appointed
by participants for their
national selection procedures. |
| (b) |
Each member
of each national jury shall award
1 to 10 votes to each song
,excluding the song presented by
the participant that has
appointed him/her. Abstentions
shall not be allowed. |
| (c) |
The members of the
national juries shall register
their votes for each song, as
soon as it has been sung, on
secret voting papers that shall
be collected by the secretary. |
| (d) |
Each jury shall have
a chairperson, appointed by the
relevant participant from its own
staff, who shall be responsible
for counting the votes after each
song has been performed, and for
allocating points accordingly for
the Contest Final results, after
the last song has been sung.
He/she shall be assisted by a
secretary who shall act as
spokesperson and be responsible
for communicating the jury's
final points, clearly and
distinctly in English or in
French, when requested to do so
by the producing organization's
presenter. |
| (e) |
Each participant
shall offer its national jury the
possibility of viewing the
television transmission of the
Contest Final on television sets
giving the best possible
reception. Each participant
undertakes to cut off reception
of the programme sound and vision
while the points of the other
national juries are being
announced until after its own
jury's final points have been
transmitted on air. Only the
secretary to the jury may listen
to the international programme
sound on headphones in order to
hear when the presenter calls on
his/her country to allocate its
points. |
| (f) |
Each national jury
must sit in its own country in
the presence of a notary, or
similar official, whose task it
shall be to ensure adherence to
the above rules and to collect
the completed voting papers and
send them to the Permanent
Services in Geneva, where they
shall be filed in the archives. |
| (g) |
No later than 15
minutes after the start of the
voting, the last five
organizations in the voting
procedure shall deliver their
votes to the EBU Scrutineer off
air (by fax), in order to
facilitate the verification of
the final result. These votes
shall be announced on air in
accordance with the normal
procedure. |
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