Talk about voter fraud.Anybody listening to the fine print on “The Voice” can find out how someone can completely manipulate results in the singing competition if they were so inclined. Forget the concept of one person- one vote. According to hosty Carson Daly, “You can vote up to 10 times per artist per voting method.”
That means I can cast 10 votes per artist on the phone, text, online and on Twitter. With six contestants left, I could cast 240 votes.
But, as they say on TV, “that’s not all.”
“Tonight only,” Daly said, if a fan downloads a contestant’s song song on iTunes, where they are on sale for $1.29 a piece, up to 10 times — and if an artist hits the top 10 on the iTunes singles chart the by the close of voting — the iTunes score will be multiplied by 10.”
So you could buy 10 copies of one song (and who would do that?), pay $12.90, and score 100 votes. If you have a lot of friends with $13 to spare weekly, that could make a big difference. And in its own way, money makes an ugly impact on the voting scene.
Not that it matters. But anybody bothering to be caught up enough in the show to consider casting a vote for a favorite should know the barriers to direct voting.