Skype rigged Eurovision vote? Just wouldn't work even if we wanted to…
Congratulations to Finns. Their monsters nailed the Eurovision after decades of trying and showed that an Eurovision winning song doesn’t really have to be the typical “Eurovision winning song”. Since Estonia’s song didn’t qualify it to the final, we were also happy for Finns. As they said in the banners waved during the TV show, “hevillä emme häviä. Torilla tavataan.” (We won’t lose with heavy. See you on the market.) They always had a twisted sense of humor…
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Among other news, we [saw some comments](http://www.esctoday.com/news/read/6197) that you could possibly use Skype to “cheat” in the vote and vote for your own country. While it’s certainly a flattering idea to be able to rig one of the planet’s most prominent entertainment events, this is simply technically impossible even if we wanted to do this (which we don’t). Most of Eurovision’s voting numbers where you had to call or send an SMS were “short” numbers and/or with an extra price to call them, which only work within the same country. SkypeOut and Skype SMS do not support these numbers, as we also [say in the Knowledge Base](http://support.skype.com/index.php?_a=knowledgebase&_j=questiondetails&_i=618).
So while we continue to work on options to enable such calls and televoting with Skype in the future, it simply wasn’t possible this year.
