Originally posted by: Anu.Rad
For this bold part - Aditya used to mention it atleast twice or thrice in the show regarding online voting and the link for saregamapa.rediff.com used to flash on screen.. He used to say - "Aap apne favorite challenger ko internet par bhi vote kar sakte hain".. So, I am very much sure that they did encourage viewers to vote online..
But we cannot say they had not included the votes.. Remember that one day before they had announced 1 crore votes and within few hours it became 10 crores.. The online votes can be counted only after they are closed and once they were closed at 8 AM IST on 13th, the votes got counted.. I dont think they would be without counting the online votes..
The version which was shown here, didn't have it. US episodes didn't included the part where contestants requested for votes. all we see at the end of the episode, are sms codes of contestants one after another. narrated by some one (pata nahian koun) and before that Adi telling everyone that they can vote via sms. that too is pre recorded.
someone can re-check the above, coz as it was the same thing repeated again after every episode, we used to change the channel. but I am sure there was NO mention of internet voting.
agar that 1 crore didn't included online voting, then they should have mentioned it na. that it is not included. all these 1 crore votes are from sms.