Last night ‘The Voice’ host Carson Daly opened the show by acknowledging an issue with this week’s texting and online voting.
Daly told viewers there were inconsistencies in voting but assured everyone there was no need to panic.
On stage to discuss the snafu was Telescope CEO Jason George, who manages the voting for ‘American Idol’ and ‘The X Factor’ in addition to ‘The Voice.’
He revealed, “Our system caught an inconsistency in a portion of this week’s voting data. For fairness, those votes have been removed from Monday and Tuesday’s results, but we want to assure fans and artists alike that this in no way affected the outcome for any team.”
NBC issued this statement, “On this week’s episode of ‘The Voice,’ we encountered issues with the systems used for online and SMS voting. We are addressing both issues, and in an abundance of caution are not counting the votes that may have been affected. Telescope, the independent company that administers voting for the show, has certified that removing those votes does not affect the outcome for any team.”
There you have it … carry on.
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