{"id":165850,"date":"2016-05-23T09:06:56","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T07:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=165850"},"modified":"2016-05-23T09:13:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T07:13:15","slug":"m-net-hit-with-online-voting-glitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/165850-m-net-hit-with-online-voting-glitch.html","title":{"rendered":"M-Net hit with online voting glitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A glitch on The Voice SA&#8217;s\u00a0web, mobile, and WeChat voting platforms meant viewers of the show could not vote for who they wanted to win during the show&#8217;s finale.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel24.co.za\/TV\/News\/the-voice-sa-finale-still-no-word-on-the-voting-glitch-20160523\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Channel24<\/strong><\/a>, the voting platforms were affected by technical problems which forced M-Net to discount votes cast during Sunday&#8217;s live show.<\/p>\n<p>The winner,\u00a0Richard Stirton, was selected based on the previous week&#8217;s votes, stated the report.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time M-Net has suffered problems with its voting system on the show, with the &#8220;late delivery of 8,000 SMS votes through Vodacom&#8221; resulting in an extra contestant being added to the top 12.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, M-Net suffered a &#8220;voting scandal&#8221; on the local version of Idols.<\/p>\n<p>Sasha-Lee Davids was deemed the winner of Idols season 5, despite\u00a0Jason Hartman having 200,000 more votes which were not counted in time.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More broadcasting news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/165688-sabcs-90-rule-will-fix-our-dismal-attitude-government.html\">SABC\u2019s 90% rule will fix our dismal attitude: Government<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/165430-bittorrent-launches-live-video-streaming-service.html\">BitTorrent launches Live video streaming service<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A glitch on The Voice SA&#8217;s web, mobile, and WeChat voting platforms meant viewers of the show could not vote for who they wanted to win during the show&#8217;s finale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":153049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[36,5016,32132],"class_list":["post-165850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","tag-active","tag-m-net","tag-the-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165860,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165850\/revisions\/165860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}