Voting At Melodifestivalen
There have been many voting systems used at Melodifestivalen over the course of its history. The Swedish broadcasters have experimented with various techniques over the years including splitting the juries by age, regional voting and an "expert" jury. Televoting was controversially first introduced in 1993, as an unannounced experiment. The Swedish telephone network promptly collapsed under the strain of phone calls being made. Televoting was permanently reintroduced in 1999, but the regional jury system was retained, and given a 50% weighting in the overall results. The current voting system has been controversial, as it is possible for the song which receives the most televotes not to win, as happened in 2005, 2008 and 2013. The current televoting record is 2,410,200 set in 2008.
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