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American Idol, Did you vote Chris and get message from Katherine?

I was watching the local news tonite and they said that some viewers were complaining that they called to vote for Chris last week on American Idol and got a message from Katherine thanking them for their vote.

I was just wondering if anyone on here experienced that?

BTW, the news said American Idol is not admitting to messing up the phone numbers.

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  • janie
    Lv 7
    2 decades ago
    Favorite Answer

    This happened to me last year..I voted fr Scott and got Anthony..If I alternated and voted Anthony then Scott, instead of getting Scoot, I got An thony..I only got Scott one out of every 4 times I dialed him..the rest going to anthony.

    Also if I dialed Scoot and got

    scott's voice, and then hit redial, instead of Scott I got Anthony..had problems similar to this for 3 weeks..posted each time and several others had problems too..so it seems they stick with patterns that work..also see infor below (some is a listed again) for what I know from last year..I never vote anymore casue it doen't count and also refuse to ever buy any products Amer. idol profits from..I will only buy it a person has cds after idol doesn't get a cut.

    Source(s): I definitely believe it's rigged. Please read this for the evidence and why I think this..I am 100% convinced it is rigged. Also there were similar problems with the phone lines last year. In fact, I copied all the evidence that slipped through on last year's website and sent it to Scott Savol and his family who I meet. Although I don't remember it all, one thing was the night before the final..(the day the last two finalist sang) they showed a clip that summarized the show..then they briefly flashed all the final 12..they were in order from the first voted off to the last and Bo was the 11th flashed and Kerry (sp?) Underwood the last night before "we" voted showing someone at idol knew she would win.. They did the same thing on a previous show..had them all sitting next to each other (I think it was week 5 or 6 ) and they had them all in order of them when they were voted off..this showed Scott leaving in the week he eventually left in (in fact all of them) as the 5th place (7th voted off) before he was voted off and right after what Simon said was his best week..again someone knew..several others were kept after their worse week or left after their best week and comments---though others were much worse that particular week. The albums in the last 4 seasons released a list of songs before they were voted off and the songs on the preview list had the singers listed in the order they subsequently were voted off (although they changed the song order last season in some of the cds after it was discussed on line..(they have changed the online website to minimize this happening again by changing the format). They banned people reopeatedly for listing information and deleted their threads and/or words...even the words fixed are banned from the site. I personally went way back into the threads once and found a thread with a list of the songs put out three weeks previously..it had them in the order that they were subsequently voted out..Anthony then Scott etc. I was stunned and I answered the old thread "OMG--look at the date this was posted. and it shows people being voted off in the exact order they eventually were three weeks before it happened. This bumped the post to the top and it was on they..within a few minutes (the moderator apparently read it) the entire thread was gone (but luckily I had copied it and others and sent them all to Scott Savol) and I was banned from the site. Each time I tried to get on and post evidence, they promptly banned me even though I used different names and email addresses. It was the evidence they didn't want posted as it would cut into their profits if people knew the show was fake. Carrie was also prominently feautured in the CD (which came out before te show was over)as one of the few people wearing colored clothes in the left corner (we read left to right)...again suggesting someone knew she'd win and they wanted er prominently featured. Also an online paper in England honoring one of the producers with an award..mentioned in te text..American's idols winner Carrie Underwood a full 2 days before she was the winner. It turned out the reporter messed up and thre article was not supposed to be printed until after the final results were announced. Several people printed the link to this paper with the paper's date verified on it and I also copied this and sent to Scott. I hope he shared it with his friends on idol during or after the tour. I think there was more stuff as well and it all convinced me beyond a shadow of a doubtthat American idol is rigged.. I never waste time calling now (and they are stealing money with their deal with cinular wireless) when people pay to vote with text messaging if it is rigged. I vowed no matter how much I like a singer or singers I will never buy a cd if the person is under contract with American Idol and if idol also benefits. I think the show--like fox's other reality shows are fixed and manipulative and shows like unanimous (which is said to have actors instead of regular people) bring out the worse in people and is bad for kids and society in general..TV could by such a good tool for humanity but rarely is..and I said so in the Neilson ratings comment form I was just sent this week to fill out. I think it is so wrong to make such huge money on a show like American idol by letting people vote repeatedly and upping the "x million votes came in" factor (to boost the amount they can get from advertisers) while putting a small disclaimer in the wording flashing by at the end of the show that say "we reserve the right to not count all the votes"..pick one or the other..either count all the votes or don't count and use it to inflate the seeming number of viewers to get more advertising money... If it were a real reality show and we actually did vote and it wasn't rigged (they always have a spoiler like Bucky or Scott or Jasmine each season to create controversy.), it one things but to makre such large amounts of money on falsoe premises, is wrong ..plus if it is not real, this harms the contestants..remember on that Corey show (about he slept with Paula )how the former contestants voted off said some people voted off people were so depressed they were suicidal...this is wrong to hurt people and their confidence if it is all prearranged--the order they will go and who will win and the bottom line is it's all about money....so I guess it does mimic reality in America.
  • 2 decades ago

    A few weeks ago I was voting for Chris and after 5 or so times, it was elliot, so I KNOW it has happened. Then it went back to Chris, so that fact and the fact that his number is always busy is the reasons he lost.

  • 2 decades ago

    I did not vote for him because I wanted him to go home. Honestly though, I think alot of people did not vote for him because they did not think they needed to- now that they know that thye do need to- they want a revote.

    MAybe if Chris would have sang his heart out like the others in the competition, he would still be here.

  • 2 decades ago

    I can totally believe that this happened cuz i know something had to happen for Chris to be voted off. I cryed like I had just lost my best friend.

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  • 2 decades ago

    i voted non-stop for chris all night and that didn't happen to me, but it wouldn't surprise me if it did happen to other people. there is no way that the final three are better than chris! he deserved to win!

  • 2 decades ago

    I don't feel that this was an accurate accusation. It's more likely that numbers were incorrectly dialed.

  • a friend of mine did call up and she said that the allegations are true.

  • 2 decades ago

    it happened to me. i voted five times for him.

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