Eurovision Song Contest organisers have issued a statement after a number of votes had to be scrapped in the competition and replaced with a different system. Votes from Azerbaijan, Georgia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania and San Marino were all replaced by aggregate scores , after irregular voting patterns were noticed on the night.
It came after Ukraine beat the UK into second place in the annual contest. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) issued a full statement.
"In the analysis of jury voting by the European Broadcasting Union’s (EBU) pan-European voting partner after the Second Dress Rehearsal of the Second Semi-Final of the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest, certain irregular voting patterns were identified in the results of six countries," the EBU began in their address.
