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Tammy,

I was referring to the comment made by someone else that there should be a class action lawsuit. Here we have a free site that has benefited lots of our members and cost them ZERO... and who also is one of our organization sponsors and someone is rattling the lawsuit sabres? It's ridiculous and offensive.

If the system was dishonest, no one that we know would ever win a dime. But we know LOTS of people who have won LOTS of money. It's not a perfect system, but the only way a system COULD be perfect is if everyone voted honestly. We know for a fact that there are artists who try every method they can think of to cheat. Because of that, the system has to be secretive and it can't be easy to figure out or it will be ripped off. The fact that you can't just easily figure it out is a good thing. If you could, that would mean that scam artists ALSO could figure it out and then continue to cheat.

Some songs will come up more often. You noticed one song that came up 4 times and yours only came up 1 time. But that HAD to happen.. because the odds would be astronomical for NO song out of ALL of them to come up more often than others. When something is random, then random things happen, like a song coming up 4 times. I'd have expected more than 1 to come up multiple times.

When I voted last month in the finals and got through about 1/3rd of the possible combinations, I actually tracked every single song and how many times it came up.. the numbers, after that many voting sessions were pretty balanced with a couple of songs a couple plays ahead of the others. That is exactly what you'd expect. I also remember it took a really large number of votes before the last song finally came up. But then it came up 3 times in about 8 head to head matches and was actually ahead of many other songs. The system is always trying to keep the number of votes the same. When random numbers of people are voting random numbers of times, any sort of combination can come up. Patterns appear that mean nothing in reality. That is the nature of how it works.

Brian