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"Question about voting and time zones to tonite's results"
realityjunky 53 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Hollywood Squares Square"
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05-13-04, 00:45 AM (EST)
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1. "RE: Question about voting and time zones to tonite's results" |
I'm not exactly sure what you're asking but the way it works here in the U.S. is the voting is only open for a certain time in your time zone...either 1 or 2 hours...I can't remember which...that being said, I am on the west coast so my polling doesn't open up until after 9pm after the performances...I know this is accurate in theory because I've tried to vote a few minutes before 9 and haven't gotten through and then a few minutes later have gotten through...but last night I called solidly for 2 hours and never got through to any of 4 numbers...I called every number just to make sure I wasn't misdialing...I kept getting the message that the number was not in service, check my number and dial again...I'm not a conspiracy theorist but am beginning to wonder about the company(I think they outsource the vote collecting process) who is collecting the votes that maybe they don't have the capacity to collect the quantity of votes coming in...I'm wondering if they are using some sort of statistical extrapolation to get the final votes and if that's the case then we are being deceived a little about the voting...JMHO
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realityjunky 53 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Hollywood Squares Square"
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05-13-04, 02:02 AM (EST)
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7. "RE: Question about voting and time zones to tonite's results" |
I guess I really don't understand because I thought the polling center just rejected your calls if it weren't calling from the right time zone based on your area code...I work at a phone company and with caller id and call accounting they just can just set it up so the calls from an area code will only be accepted for a specific time frame...for me it 9pm PST to 11PM PST and if I call before or after those times my call is rejected...Maybe the producers need to clarify...
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managerr 1959 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Herbal Healing Drugs Endorser"
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05-13-04, 02:15 AM (EST)
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9. "RE: Question about voting and time zones to tonite's results" |
2 hours after the show airs in your time zone, period.
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seahorse 14337 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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05-13-04, 04:45 PM (EST)
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13. "RE: Question about voting and time zones to tonite's results" |
Here is my theory of what might be happening.There are a fixed number of lines for each contestant. If millions of voters are dialing the same # at once then there are only a certain percentage of calls that are going to get through. Each lines can probably receive only a fixed amount of calls per hour. As a hypothetical example, lets assume that each contestant can receive 1 milion votes per hour, then if more than this amount are voting for each of the contestants, (say 1 million for contestant A, 2 million for contestant B, 2 million for contestant C, and 3 million for contestant D,) thet will all receive close to the same amount of votes 1 million per hour. THe contestants that receive the most calls just get the most busy signals for there voter, the difference in votes totaled could be neglible. This happens for 4 hours, 2 hours in the East and Central, and 2 hours in the Mountain and West time zones. Then a few hours later the phones open up in Hawaii for 2 hours. Since there are a lot less people in Hawaii voting than in the East or West, there are no busy signals at that time and all the calls get through, so assuming Jasmine is contestant A and she gets 200,00 calls an hour from Hawiii while the others get only 100,000 calls per hour then Jasmine can win the voting with 4.4 million, vs. 4.2 million each for the other 3 contestants, even though many more calls wanted to vote for the other 3 contestants. This is just a theory, but unless the voting time duration is increased substantially or the # of actual lines per contestant is increased so that there are negligible busy signals, then anyone of the contestants could be the winner even if the do not receive the most calls attempting to vote.
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AyaK 10426 desperate attention whore postings DAW Level: "Playboy Centerfold"
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05-14-04, 03:24 PM (EST)
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19. "In fact..." |
...keep in mind that you're just focusing on votes that got through. There were 3.7 million attempts to vote in Hawaii that did NOT get through. In other words, the average Hawaiian attempted to vote 4 times.
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