Activism, Hacking or Campaigning: Why It Is so Easy to Win the Popular Vote in Eurovision

Journalist and Eurofan Juan Carlos Piña entered the Eurovision website to vote this Saturday night. “When you access your country, all the candidates come out, with a note that says you can cast 20 votes at most,” he says. He chose four votes for his favorite candidate, Armenia, and went on to the next page, where they asked for an email and a card. Every vote from Spain on the internet cost 1.09 euros. By phone and SMS were slightly more expens…