Rocket Surgeon said:
That's a shame! But I thought Lito jumping out to a 200 vote lead smelled fishy! What are the highest vote totals from the past polls? Did you EVER get over 200 votes?
RocketSurgeon - The votes I received for the IndyCast in both the first and second round were
ABSOLUTELY legitimate. It's easy to tell if votes of Vizu polls are legit; if you click on the "Comment" link in the lower left-hand corner of the voting box, it opened another page that contained a geographic map of the world which also displayed all the voting information on it. Legit votes show up on the map as little colored balloons...and if you moved your cursor on top of the balloon, it shows you what time the vote was placed, the day it was placed, who was voted for, and the original city the vote was placed from. If one
bothered to check that data map in either round of the contest, they could see that the votes were spread all over the world as well as the fact that there were corresponding "balloons" for every vote placed.
I do have a lot of support, as Rob mentioned, but it didn't just come from "friends" (as asserted by Keith). It came from my wife, people SHE informed, co-workers (people who work with me in voice-over) who listen to the IndyCast (not every single person who listens votes in EVERY Indy Opinion), people I don't even KNOW, etc.
So, in short, there was nothing "fishy" about the votes I received. They were real, actual, legit votes.
KVoss said:
Well, it was said on Lito's Facebook page that most of his friends voted for him; so that would explain the high number...I bet they didn't even listen to the other entries,or the Indy-cast for that matter. I wonder if those same people will vote on "The best sidekick" poll this week??? Doubtful.
Keith - Every person that gave me feedback on my impression claimed to have listened to
ALL the other impressions.
I know because many of them took the time to contact me either through email, Facebook, my blog, my wife (she forwarded emails with people's opinions to me), etc...and many of them who voted
ACTUALLY commented on the other impressions as well. Many said they thought my "toughest competition" was Doc Whiskey...or they would say how they thought Ed nailed the "voice cracking" or whatever.
And I truly mean it when I say people I don't even know voted for me; the parents of one of my wife's co-workers wrote my wife an email saying something like, "We found out about the poll from our daughter, Melissa. We're actually HUGE Connery fans... We listened to all the clips and we thought Lito's actually WAS the best." But, in their defense, they claim they DID listen to all of the entries. Why would people who don't even know us lie about something like that?
And to address the concerns of some of the voters not being IndyCast "regular" listeners... I'm sure some weren't. But, if Rob wanted to limit the participation to ONLY IndyCast listeners, he probably could've found a way to do that. But, Rob HIMSELF said in an email to me (one he sent following this voting "incident")
"I never had a problem with people who didn't listen to the show voting on the poll. What difference does that make as long as they listen to the impressions on the site?" So, there it is.