What is Right with the American Idol Voting System?
American Idols voting seems to be a flawed system. Its merit is its consistencyIdol finalists are voted off the same way their predecessors were voted off. There seems to be no specific scandal brewing or cheatingjust television producers maintaining a system that isnt fair and balanced and doesnt work toward a valid result. Q: Why Isnt It Fair and Balanced? The problem might be the number of votes per phone and number of phone lines open per calling period. As long as producers allow multiple votes per phone number and allow an unbalanced total of votes from Hawaii, the American Idol winner may or may not be the American peoples choice. Most text messages go through–according to message board posts, web sites maintained by the text messaging company, and through news articles. But viewers pay a small fee to send a vote in text–so paying for the vote does give you leverage. Yet last year when Ruben Studdard won, texters on an American Idol message board reported some of their message
