Photo contests with public voting in Greece: who runs them and how votes count
Photo contests in Greece with a public vote are documented here through two Greek competitions and one global photo challenge with a Greek-language rules page. The Art and Culture Club of the Kifisia branch of the Hellenic Screenwriters' Union ran a 2025 competition with an audience award decided by voting and an age floor, and the Vikos-Aoos Geopark's 2016 competition required voters to register before they could vote online. Each condition is set beside the organiser that states it, and the questions the published material does not answer are left open rather than guessed.
Rechecked on 22 October 2026.
The organiser sets who may enter and who may vote
Two Greek competitions attach a condition to entering or voting, and the condition belongs to the competition that states it. The Kifisia branch's competition set an age floor for entrants, past the fifteenth year, and let an audience award rest on voting. The Vikos-Aoos Geopark's 2016 competition asked voters to register and open an account first. Neither condition carries over to the other, and a reader should check each one in the organiser's own announcement.
The Wikimedia Commons photo challenge takes a different route. Its Greek-language page ties voting to the account itself: the contributor's account must be at least 10 days old and have made 50 edits. That rule is about who may vote, not who may enter, so it sits on a separate line from the Greek competitions and should not be read as their rule.
Keeping the three conditions apart matters because they limit different people. An age floor limits entrants, a registration step limits voters, and an account-age rule limits anyone who wants a say in the count. A reader who meets one of them should ask which group it covers before assuming the rest apply.
- Kifisia branch competition: entrants had to be past their 15th year.
- Vikos-Aoos Geopark 2016: voters registered and created an account first.
- Wikimedia Commons photo challenge: voting open to accounts 10 days old, with 50 edits.
- An age floor limits entrants, while a registration step limits voters.
- Check which group a condition covers before assuming it applies to everyone.
An audience award in the Kifisia competition rests on voting
The audience award of the 2025 Kifisia competition was decided by voting, which makes the public count the award itself. The material does not say how that count was taken, and this page does not supply a method for it. An audience award is therefore only as clear as the count behind it, and that count is the part a reader cannot see.
An audience award is a different prize from a judged one. A reader can see that the public made the decision, but cannot see from the material who the public was, how many people took part, or whether one person's vote weighed more than another's. None of those points is stated, and the page leaves them open rather than filling them with a guess.
Entrants planning to compete for an audience award should ask the organiser for the count's method before they post, since the answer shows how far a wide circle of supporters can move the result. The page cannot make that choice for them and does not try to, because the choice depends on the organiser's own counting rules, which are not in front of it.
- The Kifisia branch's 2025 competition gave an audience award decided by voting.
- No count method is stated for the audience award in that competition.
- The material names no judging panel for the Kifisia audience award.
- An audience award differs from a judged prize in who makes the decision.
- Ask the organiser how the audience vote is counted before entering.
Voting windows and registration steps are set per competition
The Vikos-Aoos Geopark competition of 2016 put a step in front of the vote: a voter had to register and open a personal account before the online vote could be cast. That is a gate at the door, not a rule about the count. The reports do not say whether the register was checked against the count, or what happened to a voter who registered too late to take part.
The Kifisia competition states an age floor and a vote, and the material gives no opening or closing date for its voting. The Wikimedia page gives a waiting rule instead of a window: an account must be at least 10 days old and have made 50 edits. A reader who wants a date has to find the organiser's announcement, and a reader who wants the account rule has to read the Wikimedia page itself.
Dates should be read one at a time. The Vikos-Aoos competition is dated to a year without a day, the Kifisia competition has a year without a closing day, and the Wikimedia rule is a threshold with no calendar at all. Nothing on this page turns those three into one timetable, because the material does not give one.
- Kifisia branch competition: 2025, with no voting dates in the material.
- Vikos-Aoos Geopark competition: 2016, with a registration step before voting.
- Wikimedia Commons photo challenge: a 10-day account age and 50 edits.
- No opening or closing day is named for the Kifisia audience vote.
- Read the organiser's announcement for the voting dates before entering.
None of the three sources describes a check for fake votes
Fake votes matter most where a result depends on a count, and the Kifisia audience award does depend on one. The Vikos-Aoos competition and the Wikimedia challenge both put a check at the voter's door, requiring an account and, in the Wikimedia case, an account of a certain age and activity. Those are conditions on the voter, and they do not describe how an organiser detects a fake vote once it has been cast.
The gap is worth stating plainly. The material does not say whether the Kifisia organisers checked the audience vote for duplicate votes, and it does not say whether the Vikos-Aoos Geopark examined its register against the count. A reader who needs those answers has to put the questions to the organisers directly. Silence in a report is not evidence of a check.
What the page can say is narrower. An account rule adds a step for every voter, but the material does not claim it stops every fake vote, and this page does not claim it either. Whether an organiser checks the count after voters have registered is a question for that organiser, and a competition that publishes its checks gives entrants more to rely on than one that says nothing about them.
- None of the three sources describes a check for fake votes in its count.
- The Wikimedia rule checks voter accounts, not the count itself.
- Registration before voting is a gate at the door, not a count check.
- This page does not claim any account rule stops every fake vote.
- Ask the organiser whether the audience vote is checked before the count is final.
Legality and disqualification are not settled by these sources
The page does not say whether any of the three competitions is lawful, because the material says nothing on that point. Running a photo competition with an audience award raises questions that the material leaves untouched, and this page does not characterise them for the reader. A reader who needs a legal view should not take one from a competition page at all.
Disqualification raises a separate question. No disqualification clause is named in the material for any of the three competitions, so this page cannot list what would cost an entry its place. Where a competition states one, the clause belongs to that competition and does not carry over, and a reader should read it in full, including the parts about how the audience vote is counted.
What the page can do is say where the question belongs. Questions about an age floor, a registration step or a prize go to the organiser that set the condition, and the material names no regulator or public authority for these competitions. A reader who needs a formal answer has to ask the organiser in writing and keep the reply.
- No source here states whether any of the three competitions is lawful.
- No disqualification clause is named for the three competitions.
- The material names no regulator or public authority for these competitions.
- Questions about an age floor go to the organiser that set it.
- A formal answer needs a written reply from the organiser or platform.
Rules that apply
Il Contatore reads the public vote in each Greek photo competition the same way: the organiser sets who may enter, how voting runs and what conditions apply, and the entrant works within those settings. Two of the three sources are Greek competitions with an age or registration condition, and one is a global photo challenge whose Greek-language page sets a rule for voters. Each fact below is attributed to the organiser or platform that published it, and no fact is carried over to another competition. The sources are named beside each fact, and this page was checked and reviewed against them on 22 October 2026.
What we decline
The page cannot name a winner in the Kifisia audience award or in either of the other two competitions, and it does not rank them. Nothing here confirms that an audience vote in Greece was genuine, and no sentence on the page claims that a fake vote would be caught. Each organiser keeps the say over its own age floor, registration step and count, so a later announcement overrides this page. It cannot give legal advice on whether any Greek photo competition is lawful.
Questions and answers
Two Greek photo competitions with public voting are named here: the 2025 competition of the Kifisia branch's Art and Culture Club and the 2016 competition of the Vikos-Aoos Geopark. The Wikimedia Commons photo challenge appears too, through its Greek-language page, though it is a global challenge and not a Greek competition. The Kifisia audience award is decided by voting, and the Vikos-Aoos vote required a registered account, so the two Greek competitions differ in how voters are admitted.
Two Greek organisers are named: the Art and Culture Club of the Kifisia branch of the Hellenic Screenwriters' Union, and the Vikos-Aoos Geopark. The Wikimedia Commons photo challenge is run by a global platform, and its Greek-language page is the only Greek-facing material here for that challenge. No other organiser is named for Greece on this page, and the page does not search for more.
The Kifisia branch's audience award is decided by voting, but the material gives no counting method for it. The Vikos-Aoos competition names a voter registration before the online vote and no counting rule. The Wikimedia page sets a voter condition, accounts at least 10 days old with 50 edits, and no counting rule either. Which action counts as a vote in each of the three is a question the material leaves open, and the organiser is the one to answer it.
No calendar opening date is given for voting in any of the three sources. The Kifisia branch's 2025 audience vote has no closing date in the material, and the Vikos-Aoos vote is dated only to 2016, with no day given. The Wikimedia rule is a threshold for voters, not a window. An entrant should take the opening date from the organiser's announcement, because this page has no date to give for any of them.
The Kifisia branch's 2025 competition requires entrants to be past their 15th year, which is the one eligibility rule named in the material. The Vikos-Aoos competition sets a registration step for voters, not an age or residence rule, and the Wikimedia challenge sets an account rule for voters. No residence or fee rule is named for any of the three, so this page states none. A reader should read the organiser's own terms for the competition they plan to enter.
None of the three sources describes a check for fake votes, so this page cannot name a method an organiser uses. The Vikos-Aoos competition and the Wikimedia challenge put an account requirement in front of the vote, which is a condition on voters and not a count check. Entrants who want the answer should ask the organiser in writing before they post, and should treat silence on the point as an open question rather than as a yes.