“I hope the competition next year will take place in Vienna—without Israel,” he said Wednesday in an interview with the Spanish news outlet, El Pais. “But the ball is in the European Broadcasting Union’s court. We artists can only raise our voices on the matter. It’s very disappointing that Israel is still taking part in the contest.”
“There should be greater transparency regarding the televoting. This year, everything was very strange about it.”
There are a bunch of issues to grapple with here. One is the choice of voting system.
This may make some folks unhappy if they are looking for a perfect voting system:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theorem
That may be overthinking it, but there are some who happily do that: (albeit with a bit more humor)
https://www.youtube.com/@overthinkingit
How far down the rabbit hole do you want to go?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVmDDUqSD-0
Kaitie
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