Azerbaijan: Eurovision voting scandal

Although held in May, some media outlets in Azerbaijan last week reported that 43 people who voted for the Armenian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest have been identified by police and one has even been called in for questioning. Still effectively in a state of war over the disputed territory of Nagorno Karabakh, the news is just the latest of many scandals surrounding both countries in the international music competition.

The Snowolf says that it is not sure whether the news is alarming or entertaining. By the end of the post, however, the blogger seems to have decided on the former.

[…] Bloody hell. He voted for a fucking song. It’s not just us that use the security dogwhistle as an excuse to give someone a hard time for the hell of it, then.

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One final little question; How did the authorities know this man had voted for the Armenians? I’m willing to bet that it was down to the retention of all telephone calls and text messages on some sort of central database.

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