I have literally done nothing else for the last two hours, and never got thru. I tried both Fantasia and Diana. Not once. True, maybe if I had tried Jasmine I would have had better luck, but I am just so freaking PISSED OFF! American Idol, don't waste my time like this! 200 calls, 200 busy signals.

I may not stop watching, but I'm not "voting" anymore. I've had it. If I didn't hate Fox before, this experience tonite was the nail that sealed that coffin.

• RE: Hit Redial 200 times and didn't get thru ONCE!!,Cassandra, 11:31 PM, 05-18-04
• RE: Hit Redial 200 times and didn't get thru ONCE!!,PagongRatEater, 11:36 PM, 05-18-04
• RE: Hit Redial 200 times and didn't get thru ONCE!!,broodgal, 11:52 PM, 05-18-04
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• RE: Hit Redial 200 times and didn't get thru ONCE!!,shedevil, 00:35 AM, 05-19-04
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  • RE: Hit Redial 200 times and didn't get thru ONCE!!,pandorella, 09:30 AM, 05-19-04
  • Hit redial for JASMINE 500x, nothing came thorugh,stormysatan, 11:24 AM, 05-19-04
• RE: Hit Redial 200 times and didn't get thru ONCE!!,HobbsofMI, 09:01 AM, 05-19-04
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• I was only ever able to vote,moonbaby, 12:34 PM, 05-19-04
  • pissing off the judges,shedevil, 02:02 PM, 05-19-04
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• Missed it by that much,Ricky, 08:50 PM, 05-21-04

Called about thirty times and got through 2 or 3 times, so better luck than you had, magicfishie. I was calling Fantasia's number. Maybe the phone grid is really messed up? This was about 15 minutes before voting ended and usually it's not hard to get through late in the dial-in period. Worst than last year's final two about getting through and that was pretty frustrating.

LAST EDITED ON 05-18-04 AT 11:57 PM (EST)

Same here. I got through 1 time and called on 2 phones for the entire 2 hours. They simply have to change the voting system or this show is going to become a joke.

wondering if "becoming a joke" is the right word

I kept getting "all circuits are busy" for a half hour. Then i finally got through. This is very frustrating, i wish they would have more lines open.

There actually ARE no more lines, this is a phone company capacity and trunking issue, not an AI problem. (see voting flaws posting from earlier this week)

Thanks i was not aware of that!

LAST EDITED ON 05-19-04 AT 00:36 AM (EST)

I quit voting when Jennifer left.

There is always Jasmine to vote for,lol.

I almost quit watching when Jennifer & LaToya left. If Diana goes tomorrow night i am finished!

There will be no votes for Jasmine coming from this house that's for sure. No you can't go if Diana leaves. I won't allow it.

I got through on votes for Diana at least 40 times within the last 10 minutes of voting. I hope that doesn't mean bad news for her -- Diana and Fantasia should definitely be the final 2! They are both great; although Diana is my favorite to win........................................and, NO, I'm not a teeny bopper who knows secret ways to tie up the phone lines; also not a hometown native of Diana's. I'm a 35 year old heterosexual divorced mother of 2 who thinks Diana is the best singer /performer left on AI. Please let Jasmine be gone tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!!!

In the last 1/2 hour, I continually redialed for Fantasia and only got through 4 times. I watched the clock for the heck of it, and I was able to dial every 5 seconds. (Hit flash, redial, wait for the busy signal, hit flash, redial....) I hope this DOES reflect the voting, and that Diana's supporters were done.

(We gotta b*tch or we'll explode!)

Try everyone's line: If all of them busy, then Dial for the person you want to boot! When you get through remember to STAY ON THE LINE. Let yourself disconnect manually. You can stay on the line for a good 40 seconds before they boot you. You may have voted for the person, but you just blocked several other callers from getting through!

This is a great way to vote against someone and make the times you do get through count more. (Hopefully I was able to block a good number of Fantasia votes tonight)

If Fantasia gets booted tomorrow it won't matter she will probably be more successful than Diana or Jasmine no matter who wins.

me too...redialed over and over again for 2 hours straight...really frustrating...

Same experience here. Called and called for Fantasia and got a busy signal every. single. time.

The AI producer said yesterday that the voting system is as fair as it possibly can be.

Yeah. Right.

That is not a good sign, the night before George went home we tried for 2 hours and could not get thorugh and what happens he goes home.
Maybe that was Fantasia's big send off. They said Simon told New York Times, Diana will win.
I am still convinced the show is not rigged but they plan who they want to win and which order you go when they pick the Top 12.
Does anyone remember the week before Latoya left, they kept running the AI commercial and it said "If you think you know who will win, Don't count on it". What was that telling you and the next week the so called declared winner Latoya goes home. Sound staged to me.
I think Diana will win and of course FAntasia is going on to a great career but she is not American Idol image but hey I don't think Ruben is either.
Wasn't it Ruben who was taking money from sales of shirts with the 205 on it while he was competing, which is forbidden and I think recently his tour bus had drugs on it.
Well at the rate he is going if this is all true, he will be dead before he makes AI a fortune.

I voted 55 times in one hour for Diana. It was harder to get through this time though. Ruben was taking money from sales of the shirts and yes drugs were found on his tour bus heard it on the news but don't know the outcome of it. If the drugs don't kill him his weight will. Your heart can only function so long with that amount of weight on your body. I am not a Fantasia fan but I would not vote for Jasmine just to piss off Simon or the other judges she is not ready for a career in music yet, her voice is just not there. It will be interesting to see who goes tonight.

Ruben wasn't on the bus, so he didn't get pegged for anything. He'll probably be released from his contract like Justin if he doesn't get going. If Jas gets it, they'll structure her album to avoid the flats, and they can get her to do it over if she is, although I don't want to see her get it at all.

Racism aside, we've had a white girl with a slight gut, we've had a black guy with a gut, and if Jasmine gets it, we will have a Hawaiian (Philipino?) with guts (to keep going out there and be lousy!)

(We gotta b*tch or we'll explode!)

Never got through once in 2 hours.

I am beginning to suspect that FOX limited the phone lines for jasmine to allow for a Fantasia-Diana duel which I think is not good.
Fantasia is just way above the two cutesy girls. So I don't want her in the final 2. It would have been better if the winner had been announced yesterday (or maybe tonight) instead of waiting for the final two next week.

It's not gonna be very interesting unless it's a jasmine-Diana. Interesting,of course, not because of talents but for what the judges might say.
I think it's been the ugliest final with the best talents not making it to the final.

First time I ever voted and I got about 200 votes in for Jasmine just beacause Simon says so...

I get the feeling you are not alone. I think many will vote against the judges choices, because they were so pushy tonight.

I quit caring when george left!!

now i want jasmine to win all the way!!!

just to piss off the judges

Somehow, someway they would fix something if she gets into the finals so that all of Hawaii has a blackout or something when they are suppose to be voting.
I can't see them letting her win.

Wouldn't it be funny if everyone who voted for Jasmine to spite Simon were all playing into his hands? It wouldn't surprise me if he wanted Jasmine to win, just to try and end Idol or at least make it more of a joke. He has his own Idol type show coming up, why not kill the competition? Just a thought.

>First time I ever voted and
>I got about 200 votes
>in for Jasmine just beacause
>Simon says so...

That's because everyone else was voting for the winner....

(We gotta b*tch or we'll explode!)

Tried for about an hour to vote for Diana last night and got thru about 20 times.

Redialed and redialed, tried for both Fantasia and Diana, not a single call went through...

Grrrrr..... If Jasmine remains I will be Pi55ed...

I can never get through from my house phone, only from my cell phone. I was only able to get through about 10 times in the entire two hours. I voted for Fantasia, but it seems they are setting it up for her to get the boot with all of their "you don't need this competition" comments.

mld

early on. Lately? I can never get through. I stopped trying last night after only a few times.

I'm just wondering, does anybody really think that the judges care who wins anymore? I'm thinking they don't. Why should they? They are going to get paid no matter what, and there will be another season to make this one up. They may act like they care, but after the things that have already happened this season, I really doubt they do.

I think the judges care. But I think they also know that many viewers don't care what they say. I think that's why the four of them praised Fantasia so much last night (and rightly so, IMHO).

They *want* people to vote for Fantasia, who in their opinion is the best contestant still in the race. But they also are aware that voters (ones who can get through the clogged phone lines, that is) are deliberately voting for contestants whom the judges DON'T want to win. Why? I don't know. You'll have to ask all those millions of #$Q! text messagers who are voting for Jasmine.

Go Fantasia (she said, in a futile attempt to support the most talented contestant remaining).

America loves an underdog, which is the obvious reason some of the contestants got as far as they did. The do not want Randy, Simon or Paula telling them who they should vote for. Many indeed voted against the judges wishes throughout the competition. The uncertainty is great for ratings and reality tv forums.

Same here. I tried the whole two hours, and never got through. I'm not voting anymore either. I mean what's the point? I sat there and wasted two hours calling and got a busy signal everytime.

did you try to text message? i really want to know if this works!

'Idol' says its voting system is fair

http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2004-05-18-idol-voting_x.htm

Then it must be true and don't blam them!

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"You don't need pants for the victory dance"

201 is the charm. You give up too easily.