Contests with public voting in November in Greece: dates and organisers
Two named contests in November in Greece opened their votes in that month: the Vikos-Aoos Geopark photo contest on 16 November 2016 and the 2012 Readers' Award on 15 November 2012. The Vikos-Aoos photo vote ran until 10 December, so its window crossed into December, while the 2012 reader voting has no closing day in the cited report. The reports give opening dates for both votes and a closing date for only one of them, so the length of the 2012 vote cannot be stated.
Rechecked on 21 October 2026.
Vikos-Aoos Geopark photo vote: 16 November to 10 December 2016
Anaptyxiaki Epirou S.A. ran the Vikos-Aoos Geopark photo contest, and the organiser's own website is the source for its voting window. The public vote for the best photographs in each category opened on 16 November and ran until 10 December 2016.
The vote was open for 25 calendar days, and its close fell in December. A reader who plans around a November opening has to count that December tail into the calendar, because the vote did not stop at the end of the month.
Categories matter for how the result reads. The vote asked the public to choose the best photographs within each category, so a voter is choosing among entries in one category rather than across the whole gallery at once.
The reports give no count method for this vote, no figure for the number of votes a person is allowed to cast, and no rule for ties. Those are the points a reader should look for in the contest's own rules, and this page leaves them open.
- The Vikos-Aoos Geopark photo vote ran from 16 November to 10 December 2016.
- Anaptyxiaki Epirou S.A. ran the contest, according to its own site.
- The vote asked the public to pick the best photos in each category.
- The vote was open for 25 calendar days.
- The reports give no count method for that vote.
The 2012 Readers' Award: reader voting opened 15 November
The 2012 Readers' Award was organised by EKEBI, the National Book Centre, together with ERT, the Greek public broadcaster. Its reader voting opened on 15 November 2012, as a Greek news report carried it.
The cited material gives the opening day but no closing day for the 2012 reader voting, so the length of that vote is not stated. A reader cannot fill that gap from the photo contest, which closed on a different date under a different organiser.
Reader voting for a book-sector award is a different mechanism from a photo gallery vote, because the voters are readers and the subject is books. The award's organiser is the National Book Centre, and the award's own terms would set who counts as a reader.
This page does not reproduce those terms, since no cited report gives them. It states the opening date and the organisers, and it leaves the rules of the reader count with the award itself.
- Reader voting for the 2012 Readers' Award opened on 15 November 2012.
- EKEBI organised the award together with ERT.
- The cited material gives no closing day for that vote.
- EKEBI stands for the National Book Centre in Greece.
- The award is a book-sector prize, not a photo competition.
Registration before voting: the 2016 photo gallery rule
The Vikos-Aoos Geopark photo contest of November 2016 required voters to register and create a personal account before they voted in its online gallery. The rule sits on the contest's own site, and it puts the account step ahead of the ballot.
Registration works as a gate in front of the vote, so the account step has to be finished before the vote itself starts, not during it. A voter who has not finished that step is not yet in a position to vote in that gallery.
The cited material does not say how many times a registered account can vote, so this page states no limit. The account rule is the only one of its kind in the record, and it is a clause an entrant should check before a window opens.
A registration rule decides who can reach the vote at all, which makes it one of the first clauses to read in any contest's terms. The 2016 gallery example shows how an organiser can place that clause in front of the ballot.
- The 2016 photo contest required voters to register before voting.
- Voters created a personal account to vote in the online gallery.
- The account step came before the vote in that contest.
- The cited material gives no vote limit for a registered account.
- The rule is stated on the contest's own site.
EBU safeguards against fraudulent Eurovision voting
In November 2025 the European Broadcasting Union said its reinforced safeguards, built with its voting partner, detect and prevent fraudulent or coordinated voting in Eurovision. The Greek news outlet Protothema reported the change.
The statement is the EBU's own description of its system, and this page reports that description without testing it. No detection rate, no count and no outcome is implied by the statement, and the cited material gives none of them.
For a reader in Greece, the point is the EBU's standard for Eurovision voting, which applies across that contest, rather than a rule written for Greek contests alone. The cited material does not say how the safeguards apply to a Greek national selection.
A reader asking whether a vote is a scam gets a named organisation and a dated statement from the EBU. That is more than an unnamed site offers, and it is the reason to check who runs a vote before entering anything.
- The EBU said its safeguards detect and prevent fraudulent voting.
- The statement is dated November 2025.
- The safeguards were described together with the EBU's voting partner.
- Protothema reported the EBU change in Greek.
- The cited material does not test how the safeguards perform.
Rules that apply
None of the cited reports sets out a Greek legal test for a contest vote, so the legality of a given contest turns on its own terms and on Greek law. The reports show each organiser fixing its own dates and entry conditions, such as the account step in one photo gallery. For Eurovision, the European Broadcasting Union describes its own safeguards against fraudulent or coordinated voting. Editorial note: the dates on this page were checked against the named sources and reviewed on 21 October 2026.
What we decline
This page does not show that every November contest in Greece runs a vote, and it cannot list a Greek contest that the reports leave out. The cited reports set no disqualification rule, so the page states none, and the organiser decides whether an entry is removed. Nothing here says how an organiser checks a count, and the EBU's safeguards are the EBU's own statement, not a finding this page has tested. A reader cannot take an opening date from one contest and apply it to another, and this page never tries to.
Questions and answers
The reports name two November openings: the 2012 Readers' Award reader voting, which opened on 15 November 2012, and the Vikos-Aoos Geopark photo contest's public online vote, which opened on 16 November 2016. The Vikos-Aoos vote also has a closing day, while the 2012 reader voting has only its opening day in the report.
No contest in the cited reports closes its vote inside November in Greece. The Vikos-Aoos Geopark photo contest's public vote, which opened on 16 November 2016, closed on 10 December 2016, and the 2012 Readers' Award report gives no closing day at all.
The one measured length is the Vikos-Aoos photo vote: it ran from 16 November to 10 December 2016, which is 25 calendar days counting both ends. The 2012 Readers' Award report gives an opening date only, so the length of that reader voting cannot be worked out from the text.
The cited reports give no winners' announcement date for either November vote in Greece, so this page states none. The 2016 photo vote closed on 10 December, and the 2012 award report carries no date beyond the opening day of 15 November.
The reports give no entry deadline for any November contest in Greece, so this page cannot set a lead time. The 2016 photo gallery required a personal account before voting, which means the account is the first step an entrant has to finish under that contest's rules.
The cited reports set no lead time, and this page does not estimate one. What they show is a sequence of steps rather than a number of days: registration first, then the vote, with the EBU's November 2025 safeguards sitting over Eurovision voting.