[kingu]

No offense to certain "differently abled" folks, but anyone relying on CC for AI probably shouldn't be voting in the first place...

The argument is that those who might be watching in loud places (such as bars) might use the CC to know which numbers are which. You'd have to be dumb as a brick to not figure out that it was a mistake, but then again, they had a revote for a similar situation when the numbers appeared on the screen outside of the CC.

In any event, hopefully someone at Fox has fixed the problem for the rest of the series.

[texasflower]

I wonder why they don't just assign individual phone numbers to each contestant at the beginning of the show?

They shut down phone numbers each week anyway, so it seems like that would help avoid this problem.

I'm sure there is something I don't understand about the way this is done though.