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Plus, they NEVER have an accounting firm on hand like the Oscars to verify the results. They don't even claim that. Whose to say they don't pay themselves (by toll call voting) to have a result closer to what they want, especially in the middle phases where we are now.
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Oscar votes are recorded on old fashioned written ballots sent through the mail. They number a few thousand, tops. It's a completely different situation. What point would there be in hiring an accounting firm to monitor the millions of votes recorded by AT&T computers? AT&T is said to have software in place to filter out automated voting. Assuming it works, it would be also be filtering out any automated voting attempted by Fox or the producers.
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Whose to say they don't pay themselves (by toll call voting) to have a result closer to what they want, especially in the middle phases where we are now.
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The calls are toll free. It's the text messages that have a fee, and that fee doesn't got straight into the pockets of Fox and the producers. You can rest assured that AT&T takes a large chunk.
You're suggesting massive criminal fraud by two very large corporations conspiring together. How could this conspiracy possibly serve AT&T and how much could it really do for Fox?
If this vote rigging did exist, would Taylor Hicks really have been allowed to win? Only if extraterrestrials were involved.