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Old 21-11-2009, 21:19
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I don't normally vote, but tonight I wanted to support Ricky and Erin, as it went pear-shaped for them.

I started dialling as soon as the number came on the screen and got the engaged tone. Sat pressing re-dial until the lines closed and still got the engaged tone. Actually began to think the BBC were going to announce the lines were down, allowing them to make numbers up after Jade dropped out.

Then Ricky is in the bottom two.... How does that happen - if we are to assume his line is constantly busy due to heavy voting?!
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Old 21-11-2009, 21:23
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I voted for Laila and Anton and got through ok...obviously I suppose given their final position.
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Old 21-11-2009, 21:23
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I voted once each for Nat & Laila

Saving my votes for Team Cola for when they reach the final. Then I'm going to go voting mad.
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Old 21-11-2009, 21:23
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I voted for Ricky W and got through.
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Old 21-11-2009, 21:24
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I gave 4 votes for Laila.
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Old 21-11-2009, 21:25
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So how come the one on the bottom had really busy lines?
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Old 21-11-2009, 21:25
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I voted 8 times for Natalie . And got through each time.
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Old 21-11-2009, 21:26
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I voted for Chris and Ola and was worried because I was getting throught quite easily.......but he was safe phew.
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Old 21-11-2009, 21:27
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Natalie got all of my votes today.
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Old 21-11-2009, 21:27
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I didn't vote this week. I am losing any interest.
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Old 21-11-2009, 21:28
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Voted once for Ricky W and Chris and got through ok.

Did vote for Ricky G last week and the week before and got through ok too.
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Old 21-11-2009, 21:29
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As I have said as part of another post - I had an absolute nightmare trying to get through to vote for Ricky and Erin and Laila and Anton - constant engaged tone until the last 3 or 4 mins. In fact hubby made the same remark as OP regarding the phone lines going down.

I ask the same question I started trying to vote from the moment the lines opened and only got through in the last few mins so WHY were they in the bottom two if so many people were "allegedly" voting for them to make their numbers constantly busy - and btw I vote every single week and have not had this problem before in ANY series
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Old 21-11-2009, 22:05
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i didnt vote this week....... :/
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Old 21-11-2009, 22:06
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I voted for Ricky and Erin and got through.
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Old 21-11-2009, 22:22
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I didn't vote at all and now that Jade is out can no longer visualise feeling the urge to spend my cash on a Saturday night.
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Old 21-11-2009, 23:11
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This all sounds very suspicious to me.
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Old 21-11-2009, 23:24
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I voted twice for Nat.

I couldn't get through the first couple of times.
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Old 21-11-2009, 23:46
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4 times for Chris and Ola, twice for Natalie - gave Chris my spare Jade votes
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Old 22-11-2009, 00:03
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Voted once for Natalie and Vincent, and husband voted for Ali, no problems. Someone else voted for Natalie and Vincent about 33 times and got through o.k. ! Amazing !
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Old 22-11-2009, 00:11
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33 times? Are they made of money?
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Old 22-11-2009, 00:18
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tried to get through for cola but couldn't
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Old 22-11-2009, 03:27
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So how come the one on the bottom had really busy lines?
Because he only had 2 points from the Judges.
He probably got loads of votes but that's a seriously big hill to climb if others higher up the leaderboard are popular too.

Even getting the highest phone vote (6 points), if for example Chris (leaderboard 4 points) got 5 points from the phone vote, he beats him and Ali would only need 4 phone points to beat him (5 from the leaderboard).

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Old 22-11-2009, 06:45
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I don't usually vote until the semifinals.

Unless I have a particular favourite and they get mauled by the judges.
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Old 22-11-2009, 08:50
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I got a constant engaged tone when I tried to vote for Chris & Ola. I did manage to get through once, though.
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Old 22-11-2009, 10:35
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Having watched since series one, I do understand the voting system, however, my point is, if the line was constantly engaged, that would imply that the maximum number of calls were being made to that number. Logic would tell me that would put him at the top of the viewers vote.

When I have occasionally voted in the past this series, I have never got the engaged tone; I felt it was strange enough to make my posting.

Anyway, he's gone now, so we will never know.
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