Immediately after the large-scale Melodi Grand Prix on Saturday night in Boxen in Herning went several unhappy greenlandic viewers to the keys on the social media.
More explained here, that they had experienced problems with voting on the duo Julie & Nina in the final, and that their votes were not registered properly, or that they did not receive receipts for their votes.
Therefore, was more in rebellion of that, Julie & Nina ‘only’ ended up with second place and gave the error in the sms-voting is to blame.
But the explanation gives the DR’s underholdningschef, Jan Lagermand Lundme, not a lot. According to him, there is nothing to suggest that there has been an error in the sms-votes.
– There have not been any problems with the sms votes yesterday. It has worked 100 percent, as it should, so that the people writes that it has not worked, and that their votes are not received, it simply do not fit, he says to Ekstra Bladet.
Event & Culture – 24. feb. 2019 – at. 06:15 Tumble check with the complaints: – It’s cheating
According to Jan Lagermand Lundme, the sms-votes constantly monitored during the conduct of the Danish Melodi Grand Prix, and the DR would quickly have been able to ascertain a possible error.
– All votes have been properly submitted, has been received and counted. We would have been made aware of it with the same, if there were problems with the system, we have people who monitor the voting all the time, says underholdningschefen.
Event & Culture – 24. feb. 2019 – at. 12:55 Outraged Sigmund: – Fuck you!
Jan Lagermand Lundme believe that there may be other good reasons why several viewers have experienced that their voices have not been registered under this year’s Grand Prix.
– It may be that people have written incorrectly, voted twice in the same song, or voted after the voting was over, as I said, there has been something wrong with the vote, says Jan Lagermand Lundme and explains that receipts of esa are often the first to be sent out the day after, if there is pressure on the system, or it is late in the evening.
More greenlanders were dissatisfied with the sms-voting, which, they believe, is not functioning optimally. Photo: Mogens Flindt
on Saturday night, wrote the greenlandic media sermitsiaq.ag, is that the phone company Tele-Post was in full swing investigating the case, and that it may not only were the voices in Greenland, but also in the rest of Denmark, that could be covered, the alleged error.
– Our technicians are in the process of investigating the case. It’s all about, that you cannot vote on the same song several times. But when Nina and Julie goes in the finale, there is the opportunity to vote again, informs Paarnaq Hansen, who is the communications officer at Tele-Post for the medium.
Jan Lagermand Lundme is, however, baffled by the announcement.
– I know not where they have from, sounds it.
Event & Culture – 24. feb. 2019 – at. 10:18 ‘Outrageous’ eurovision: – I do not understand
Earlier on Sunday published DR the distribution of votes during this year’s Grand Prix.
Viewers had Julie & Nina as the winners with 23 percent of the vote, while Leonora was number two with 18 percent of the vote.
Fagjuryen threw rather his love on ‘Love Is Forever’, which received 24 percent of the vote – far ahead of Julie & Nina, who just got 12 percent of the jurystemmerne. Therefore ended up Leonora to pull the victory.
Event & Culture – 23. feb. 2019 – at. 23:02 Break up completely.
