Many are shocked that Pia was voted off, but not everyone. I wasn’t shocked, and here is a review that anyone still around this thread might get a kick of out. This reviewer called it correctly before the fact. Something I stumbled across:
http://www.youtube.com/user/StephenC98#p/u/1/dC4WDLKQNzc
Here’s a theory I read that I believe gives a good explanation for why it happened:
This season we are allowed to vote online 50 votes max. What that does is free up the lines for the boppers to go wild. And they are going wild. The voting system has been a mess since the show started. Something will have to change. I’m sure Idol thought doing the internet voting would help. Bad plan.
Idol’s new voting system has backfired and backfired badly. And anyone who thinks Idol is rigged you can put that one back up on the shelf. If Haley or Lauren goes next week the season that started as the greatest will quickly lose its luster.
Until the voting system finds a way to make it one vote per person, the voting will NEVER be an accurate accounting of who really thinks which one of the contestants is the best. Voting should NEVER be about how many times you can vote.
Imagine if we could do that at the presidential level! We’d never have a Republican president ever again!! At most, one vote should be allowed according to the number of contestants left, so if you are for all of them you can spread it out this way
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