Take your pick.

Several channels, not to mention the odd magazine, have all had vote rigging scandals in recent memory.

This is the first series where I've genuinely valued personality and entertainment value over talent. I voted for Team Cola this week to ensure they stayed in - I wouldn't have done it for Zoe or Ali.

However, I won't vote for them once we get a little closer to the business end - if they're not performing then I don't want them anywhere near that glitterball.

Chris has got maybe 2 weeks left to show me he's improving before I stop picking up the phone for them and just keep voting for Jade and Ian.

I've voted for Vincent and Natalie. The reasons are because :
He's my favourite Pro. and I didn't want him to be humiliated after last year's success.
People were so nasty about Natalie that I thought no-one would be voting for them, and I reckoned they would be out first without some support. They've been a delight on the show, but I'm realistic in knowing it will all end shortly. I think she'll be out in 2-3 more weeks, which will be an amazing run for her, but of course someone with better technique and dancing talent should win. I think the semi -final will be between Jade, Ricky W, Ali and Laila, and I will be voting for the one who has the best dancing ability.

Vincent is my favourite pro too. I usually vote for him + partner, and any other couple that I find entertaining.

Once "my couples" are eliminated I stop voting - I don't transfer my votes to other couples.

I then watch the later stages of the competition impartially.

I'd vote for my favourite dancer/celeb EVERY time.

If it was a case of "the best dancer should win" then the vote in itself would be pointless. There'd be judges and they would decide. Meh.

So what if you're a better dancer than my favourite - you should have appealed to me more - your fail.

I won't vote until the final. Complete waste of money as all I want to be is entertained. I have only ever broken my rule twice - once for daughter who wanted to save Louisa, or try too and when I voted for Ramps in the semi after his brilliant AT.

Good thing is, because of my stance, I also don't get worked up when votes do strange things - be it JS staying or Zoe going. In fact, this year is more exciting because it's the only year that, genuinely, I have no idea who will be in the bottom two.

I do vote in the final. I've voted over the years for Denise Lewis, Colin J, Ramps and Alesha.

I generally like those who are reasonable dancers - I would never have voted for Fiona or Kate Garraway or Quentin or John Sargeant

I'm supporting Jade and Ian this year but wouldn't mind if Ali or Ricky won

I might throw a few votes Chris and Ola's way cos I like their partnership

Not very far........I don't vote so not even off the sofa.

The show is not just about dancing, it is also about entertainment.

I don't always agree with all the judges individual marks (Len giving Ricky G an 8 .... ridiculous!!) but I usually agree with the order the couples finish on the leaderboard.

However, I cannot find any entertainment value whatsoever in watching people do something really badly, however much I may, or may not, like them as personalities, so nothing would make me waste money voting to save those at the bottom of the leaderboard.

I'm afraid I'm a "journey" person. I fall for it every time. I guess it's because I can relate to someone who is prepared to work at something in order to see improvements every week. So, no I wouldn't vote for Craig because I'm not really seeing a great improvement in his dance. I'm not saying that he can't improve, because I don't agree with Bruno's assessment that some people are"not dancers", but that it doesn't look as if anything signficant is going to happen within the timescales of the series.

This is interesting. I wondering something similar recently. I think that during the very early stages, it is easy to justify a vote for someone hopeless on the grounds that "I really liked him in XXXX" or "Because he's fit innit" because there's nearly always someone else that's at least almost as bad. (By the way, just for the hard of thinking, "XXXX" isn't actually a programme.)

As the competition progresses, we tend to justify our continued support with, "Well I'd rather see him/her dance again next week than x, y and z even if they are technically superior." Which is, of course, fair enough. I may even have done this myself once or twice...

However, once the series gets closer to the final, I'd hazard that most people start changing their approaches to voting. The old "I do still like them but they're really not good enough to win" mentality asserts itself. Most of the voters, while they're happy enough to keep inferior dancers in to ensure they get to watch them for another week, this becomes less relevant as the weeks become fewer.

This is why we've never had an outrageous result. The best dancer often doesn't win, but it's never been at the expense of someone who was vastly inferior. The closest to that happened in series three and Darren Gough had progressed so far from what he was that even I didn't begrudge him the win. And I have a little shrine in my bedroom dedicated to Colin Jackson. It has a little voodoo doll of DG but I can't bring myself to stick pins in it...

I don't vote.
But I'd definitely vote for someone I liked over a better dancer as long as they tried hard.

For me it is a combination of a dance done well by someone I perceive to be an underdog - a routine that really takes me by surprise and delights me. Chris and Ola's Rumba, Ricky and Erin's Paso are good examples from the current series that would have me running for the phone.

Ricky and Natalie absolutely surprised me last Saturday because I think I saw Ricky acting and feeling the dance for the first time and I'd given up expecting a performance from him I suppose. However, as Ricky clearly isnt the underdog I didnt feel he and Nat needed my vote. Once things get nearer the wire though a performance like that would have me voting.

I must stress that even if I have "personality" favourites, they don't get a vote unless they thrill me with their dancing too.

If I felt passionately enough about an underdog, I'd vote for them regardless of what stage of the competition it is.

My choice, if others don't like it or we lose better dancers, tough.

I would never vote for a crap dancer.

I vote for the best dancer, the one that captures my imagination. And for me, that person will either be Ricky W, Ali or Jade.

Voting for the journey people to win is like voting for Jedward to win X factor.

The celebs are competing in SCD because they want to become career dancers?

I've been watching this show all wrong

I've only voted once for an underdog and that was Kenny Logan (can't remember why now - probably the kilt in the Paso ).

I would never vote for a crap dancer. My vote goes to who ever I take a liking to who can also dance. Normally I don't vote for the first 4/5 weeks until I have decided who to back, but because of the new scoring system this year, I have been voting for Chris & Ola and I also gave Jade & Ian a vote on Saturday. When it comes to the final, if one of my favourites haven't made it, I will only vote if I'm thrilled by the dancing. Last year, I voted one or twice for Christine and Matt and then didn't vote again until Tom and Camilla danced their fabulous show dance, redeeming slightly the disaster that was series 6 of Strictly.

I no longer vote because the money isn't going to CIN, plus with all the people intent on sticking one on the judges distorting the vote makes my vote fairly irrelevant.

When I did vote, it was always later in the seriews to support who we liked best (providing they could dance). We supported Colin Jackson, Ramps and Alesha mainly, but I did bung a few in for Letitia Dean when she danced well and looked in danger plus a few others in that situation. I would not vote for the best dancer unless I liked them and wanted to support them. Nor would I vote purely to annoy the judges.

Now if we could have voted to boot someone out the grossly overmarked Bunton and Snowdon would have had my finger on redial.

I'd vote for someone who was having a bad night for whatever reason if I thought they had some potential or talent. I voted for Ramps when he was bottom of the leaderboard and I'm afraid I'm one of the beleagued lot who voted Matt DA through the clustereff that was his quarter-final. I'd never vote for someone whom was irredemably rubbish or at least I don't think I would.

If I could find a way of unvoting for the ludicrous underdogs we've had in the past few series, I would.

I vote for either the best dancer or the most improved dancer - although I rarely seem to agree with the judges about who's danced well, so accept my voting might look off the wall to some.

I know 'it's entertainment' but it's linked to a specific skill - it makes it utterly pointless if people persistently vote for the terpsichoreally crap.

Thanks for responding guys it makes interesting reading.........however I notice no-one is prepared to say if they would continue to vote for Craig to win this thing.

In the case of Craig I couldn't do it, if you're going to be bad at least do it with some style.

John Sargent I would have voted for. Craig? No chance! I'm all for the iconic moments which Craig is not providing.

There again I'm the same person who would of had John Bardon win Just the Two of Us for his rendition of Maneater alone!!

I don't often vote but this post above encapsulates my feelings exactly. If we are 'supposed' to vote only for the best dancer then indeed there is no point to the show at all.

I will vote for a favourite celeb but only if they are a reasonable dancer too. I like Craig as an actor but couldn't bring myself to vote for him as he is just bad at dancing but I'm still pleased he is through to Blackpool. I can understand people voting him through for that but afterwards there's no real reason to keep voting for him as he'll have achieved what he wanted out of the comp.

Did vote for Tom and Camilla lots last year, although I didn't know Tom as an actor before SCD, because I found his attitude to the comp appealing and he showed progression but I only voted in later stages to ensure he won over the good but dull Rachel and the overmarked (IMHO) Snowden.

Haven't voted yet this year as no-one has particularly appealed in either dancing skills or personality. Might be tempted to vote for Tuffers if he seems in danger as I like him and his attitude to the comp.

For me as I'm not a ballroom dance expert, then it doesn't matter if the technically best dancer doesn't win it, as long as whoever does is reasonably good and has entertained.

If they wanted the technically best dancer to win then quite obviously having a public vote makes absolutely no sense.

What about who the public think is the best dancer? I don't think there's an expectation that the public know a great deal about the ins and outs of heel turns and etc, but it would be nice if the public voted for whose performances they enjoy most on the floor, rather than who does the best VTs or who has the cutest slogans or the best attitude to the competition. IMO it should feel like the backstage segments inform our understanding of what happens on the floor which is what we vote on, not the other way around, which it feels increasingly is the case.

The two do inform each other (I don't expect people to ever really enjoy the dances from people they don't like personally, and to also always find a bit of enjoyment watching people they like on a personal level) and I feel they're becoming increasingly divorced and almost perversely so, to the extent that people feel they're supposed to dislike the best dancers because "they're not learning anything" or "it's boring if they win".