Hawaii is in a time zone several zones away from the Mainland... when AI finishes airing their, they have no trouble getting through to vote for thier state favorite, Jasmine Trias... and very few votes for the other candidates.
Thus Trias voters in Hawaii get no busy signals and Jasmine gets a huge boost in votes.
The whole voting process is flawed.
This could be fixed by having the audience vote FOR THE WORST SINGER... the one to leave the show... instead of voting for their favorite.
Actually, the network has addressed that rumor and have stated that voters in Hawaii only have two hours like any other location. They also provided information, which they claim to have gotten from the telecom people, that only 1.3 million votes came from Hawaii...not nearly enough to effect the outcome even if they were all for the same person.