News > Calm Down, There's No Way to Rig American Idol Votes
April 5, 2007
reality blurred reports that, despite some worry amongst the American Idol fanbase (in this case, "worry" meaning "angry text messages and MySpace blog posts"), there is no way to use programs such as DialIdol to artificially give multiple votes to your favorite contestant.
The show's executive producer, Ken Warrick, went so far as to say that no one in the history of the show has even attempted to vote using illegal methods. If he isn't lying, that statement may be one of the most uplifting things I've heard in the last few months: no matter how ridiculously obsessed America may become with this show, no one has yet developed the desire to actually cheat at it.
Except for the guy who created DialIdol, of course. In addition to having created a now-useless website (the Idol phone system tracks every number it gets a call from), the entire world now knows that he had enough time (and, ostensibly, palm hair) on his hands to create a truly worthless cheating system.
