Idol voting system flawed; Sanjaya needs to go

Is it possible to have all of us come together one week and vote Sanjaya off American Idol?

Whether you would like to or not, it doesn’t matter anyway. We can’t.

It’s ridiculous that I have to discuss this now, considering he should have been one of the first to exit from the top 24.

Instead, he’s now in the elite eight.

Everyone seems to be asking “How did it come to this?”

It’s an easy answer really: The voting system is flawed.

It’s the flawed voting system that enables teenage girls and various websites such as votefortheworst.com and dialidol.com to help succeed in a Sanjaya push.

Instead of getting America to team up and vote off the worst of the bunch, they put up phone lines to vote for your favorite. On top of that, you get an endless amount of votes. It’s all so they can say they received 30 million votes instead of 10 million.

Dialidol.com enables viewers to repeatedly dial in through the computer automatically to vote for their favorite singers. While technically the option is there to vote for any singer, over 25 percent of the votes through Dial Idol are for Sanjaya.

The media’s portrayal of him has probably helped him. It’s ironic, but it may be true. Think about it. The media portrays the kid to be an anti-Christ. While it has been documented that people are saying he has a “charming personality” and everything, the catch is, that’s deep into the article or column and the average reader skips over (yeah, I know, i-ron-yyyy!!). The headings and the quotes you hear and read, they’re all calling for his head.

If you’re not convinced, let me discuss my theory on this. There are only two types of people reading these Sanjaya articles: Sanjaya fans and the people who can’t stand him. From this group, we can narrow down Sanjaya “fans” as teenage girls and people who believe in a stupid site Howard Stern tells them about, votefortheworst.com. Do they care what the media thinks of Sanjaya? No.

Any other Idol fan that reads a respective column or article on Sanjaya isn’t reading anything new. We already know how horrendously tone-deaf he is.

The truth is, Sanjaya’s existence in the elite eight is really inexplicable.

Even if you take those 10 to 14-year-old girls that vote for him, add in the Idol “rebels” and throw in those who are sympathetic towards him, it shouldn’t be enough to push him this far. Seriously, the kid is part of a running joke across America and is taking it in full stride. I have no idea how he’s doing it.

Maybe a selection of the world’s population was brainwashed into thinking that if Sanjaya gets voted off, the apocalypse will be upon us? I don’t know the answer, but I do know it needs to stop.

Come on people; if you are reading this and you vote for Sanjaya, stop.

Just stop.

Like one of my favorite writers, Bill Simmons, always says, “Come on, I don’t ask for much.”

It’s just in my case, coming from me, it’s true.