We need a new voting system---pronto!
@GlitterExplosion (415)
United States
April 5, 2007 11:13am CST
I think the real problem is that American Idol allows people (at home) to vote as many times as they want. There's no limit so if someone wanted to they could vote hundreds and hundreds of time for the same person in the time spam of about two hours. I wouldn't be susprised if the show gets a certain amount of the money for each vote. They would make thousands just on people voting---and it wouldn't even matter if they were voting for someone like Sanjaya or Haley.
Perhaps they need to make it so there's one vote per phone number. The only flaw is that there might be family members that will want to vote for one person while the other half wants to vote for someone else. But we live in an age where most people have cellphones or a way of calling someone up on the internet. Actually, they could do five or ten votes per phone number if the flaw really poses such a problem.
Or maybe they can have a voting system with mirrors Rockstar. Of course, even with that they would have to change it so there's can only be a certain amount of votes per e-mail address. (I would say IP address but that wouldn't work in some cases.) While Rockstar allows unlimited voting, it is the actual band that chooses who gets kicked off that week.
Thoughts?
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@leese29 (340)
• United States
5 Apr 07
I agree with you completely, there should be only allowed one vote from every phone. It is ridiculous with some of these contestents who are still in. Even Simon has given up compenting on Sajaya because he knows it doen's make a difference.
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@GlitterExplosion (415)
• United States
6 Apr 07
Let's also note that Simon even tried a form of reverse psychology.
@rx4life (1930)
• United States
5 Apr 07
Agreed!!! They will have to devise something or the show will go under!! Howard Stern thinks it's funny that his support for vote for the worst is taking the #1 show to it's knees... I wonder how he would feel about that if it were his show that got sabotaged....