"Did they get it wrong with the final rundown in the last minute of the show, was that when the mistake was made?"
Yes, exactly. The BIG numbers, where is says vote 866-IDOLS-XX were correct, but the small print numbers, were it's all numbers, they screwed up the last digits for three of the contestants. They showed it tonight, how it was wrong.
Mistakes happen, I think they handled this the best way possible. And for me it worked, I couldn't get to watch closely last night, nor did I vote.
Plus, I hope it proved to hubby that they are honest, 'cause last night he was saying "the votes don't count, it is all rigged" and of course that had nothing to do with the error, which we didn't even catch!
Thanks for the explanation of how the bottom numbers were messed up. And yes, the fact that they give us another chance to vote, shows that it isn't rigged. However, last week I couldn't get thru at all, no matter which number I tried. It rang busy all night--and I tried as soon as the show ended (EST times) and at various hours thruout the night, incl. 130 AM and 330 AM, no matter what contestant I called, it rang busy.