Editing Eurovision Song Contest 2003 (section)

===Voting system===
The EBU reintroduced televoting as an obligatory voting mode in all participating countries, which awarded 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 12 points to their ten favourite songs, in ascending order. Countries voted in the same order as they had performed. Bosnia and Herzegovina and Russia were granted an exception to holding a televote as they cited that their telecommunications penetration was less than 80%.<ref name=BBC>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2932760.stm|title=Turkish delight at Eurovision win|website=[[BBC News]]|publisher=[[BBC News]]|date=24 May 2003|access-date=16 November 2013|archive-date=17 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017021658/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2932760.stm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="2003 rules" /> Polish broadcaster {{lang|pl|[[Telewizja Polska]]|i=no}} opted to use only [[Short Message Service|SMS]]-voting.<ref>{{cite web|first=Aija|last=Medinika|title=Poland will use SMS-voting only|url=http://www.esctoday.com/1631/poland_will_use_sms-voting_only/|publisher=ESCToday.com|date=24 May 2003|access-date=23 March 2008|archive-date=29 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029201440/http://esctoday.com/1631/poland_will_use_sms-voting_only/|url-status=live}}</ref> In the televoting/smsvoting household shall not be permitted to vote more than three times.<ref name="2003 rules" /> All other participating broadcasters planned to use a televote. Due to a technical issue, [[#Russian complaint against Irish vote|Ireland used results from their back-up jury]] instead of televoting.<ref name=IrelandRussia /> This contest was also the first to introduce a computer-generated scoreboard which rearranged itself in order as the points were awarded. Participating broadcasters were required to assemble back-up juries that consisted of eight voting members, with age and gender equally distributed, in the case of televote failure on the night of the competition.<ref name="2003 rules" /> Four members of the jury had to be members of the general public and the other four members had to be music professionals.<ref name="2003 rules" />