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Jim,

I understand where you're coming from. The thing is, how do you get a good representation of the general populace? In a perfect world, using statistical methods, you'd select a random sample from different areas of the country - the same way political polls are conducted. This would be the most fair thing. But OurStage is not like that, since such a website would have to be closed to any new visitors. By nature, OurStage can't be a perfect representation of the public at large. That much is clear, because if it were, hip-hop would do far better than it does now.

So it's the next best thing. If you let anyone make an account at OurStage, you're basically inviting the general population to participate. Maybe more country fans will end up joining. Maybe techno fans are in the majority. Who knows? What I do know is that MY fans are part of the general populace. So are yours, so are Bill's, and so are the fans of every other artist on OurStage. The invitation is extended to all of them equally.

Of course I agree that actual rigging of the results via intentional downvoting, or other forms of cheating, is despicable and I don't support it at all. I explicitly ask my fans not to do that, and if they want to support me, they still must vote honestly.