The Greek broadcaster has released an announcement regarding the problems that some televoters faced during the semi final on Thursday. Some of the votes went to the wrong recipient and did not count in the country's result.

ERT informs that EBU and EBU's chosen partner Upstream S.A. are solely responsible for the handling of the televotes and not the local broadcaster. Upstream S.A say that, same as last year, 10% of the televoters keyed in the wrong code word. The company has tried to provide for such an incident by adding to the system all possible choices a voter may have.

So make sure you key in the right number and code tonight for the Eurovision Song Contest final.


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