February 19 LRT, together with the audit company Grant Thornton Baltic, recalculated the votes of the viewers of the national Eurovision selection who voted for the three finalists, and confirms that the winner does not change - Silvester Belt with the song "Luktelk" received the most support. The place of the other finalists in the audience voting results table has not changed either.
The votes were recalculated after evaluating the information received from the telecommunications company TCG Telecom, which provided the voting service, about the SMS messages sent during the voting, but counted later due to technical problems.
"The voting process consists of several parts. At first it is checked, several times the voice is received by SMS or call. Next, all received SMS are queued and the service fee is charged. If the subscriber's account is sufficient, the money is deducted from the account and then the vote enters the official counter. Therefore, some of the votes were still in the payment process after the voting was suspended.
This technical glitch was only during the second vote for the three finalists. We allowed the votes to be published because we saw that the final line-up of performers would not change even when all the votes were counted. We understand that we are responsible for a smooth voting process, so we accept responsibility for voting irregularities. We will look for solutions to prevent this from happening in the future," says TCG Telecom manager Vaidotas Žalalis.
Due to the large flow of SMS messages, a total of about 37 thousand SMS messages were delayed in reaching the voting system. Late SMS messages do not change the result - Silvester Belt won the national selection.
In total, in the second final stage of the "Eurovision" national selection, the audience gave about 70 thousand for the three finalists. voices when making phone calls or sending text messages: Silvester Belt got 34 votes, Shower got 691 votes, The Roop got 20.
The amount collected for the calls, belonging to LRT, goes to the winner of the final.
"The audit company Grant Thornton Baltic UAB confirmed that it confirmed the results of the audience's voting in accordance with the rules and requirements for counting votes agreed in the contract with the client LRT.
We, the auditing company, counted and verified the votes of the viewers based on the data provided to us by the voting platform during the live broadcast. In this particular case, the votes of the viewers, which were sent during the second part of the final, on the voting platform, were finally registered later, after the end of the live air time.
The audience votes announced during the live broadcast of the second round of the finals were not final, but on February 2024, 19. after receiving the revised data, we confirm that Silvester Belt's "Luktelk" collected the most votes from the audience, - says the representative of Grant Thornton Baltic.
The voting service for the organizers of the national selection EUROVIZIJA.LT was provided by the company "TCG Telecom" under the contract with LRT, which is responsible for the registration of calls and SMS messages during the voting period. Phone calls and SMS messages reached the company's vote counting system through the networks of mobile operators. "TCG Telecom" is the only company providing such a service in Lithuania.
