Originally posted by: Paris4Helen
Neutral voters still constitute the largest number of viewers/voters, and they will always. That's why when you see a show's TRP falls, if the show loses quality. Fans never bother about quality, they come to watch whatever crap their favorites do.
There are free voting options too, so vote doesn't always mean money. More over, there are so many, who won't mind sending a vote on mobile. A fan might can't 100 votes, but there are 1000 non fans to cast a vote each against that.
How Lauren or other non popular participants get their votes? Who votes for them? Mainly not fans and a part of them do vote for DD too, if they find her performance interesting. Anyway, every non fan isn't a HM, even on IF... So neutral voters do exist and in large numbers...
If the channel would be transparent by involving 3rd party audit of votes, many things could change.