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Controversy over WKLB contest (Bos Herald)

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http://bostonherald.com/news/region...g_contest_dream_deferred/srvc=home&position=3

>>Last Monday, the station announced the winning couple on the air - the Beverly woman and her fiance - but took back the prize eight hours later after discovering “interference” in the online voting process.

The woman has been raising her sister's five kids after her sister passed on. The article says the woman
"campaigned hard" to win the contest ($37k value) but Greater rescinded the prize after "voting irregularities" were
discovered (though a station spokesperson is quoted as saying they don't believe the contestants were
involved in any "irregularities")
 
It's not that hard to see when someone gets 5,000 votes in 1 hour....and they all come from 1 IP address.
 
Overdoing it, eh..over the years there have been other controversial radio contests. Entercom's "The End" in Sacramento had a water drinking contest where a woman died after drinking too much H2O...

http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/2007/01/1079-fm-sacramento-listener-contest.html
"Hold Your Wee For a Wii"
>>A 28-year-old mother of three died from water intoxication hours after competing in a radio station contest to see which contestant could drink the most water without urinating, according to preliminary autopsy results released Saturday.

1987: a man wanted to claim his trip to the moon from a contest held 29 yrs before. The station said it was under previous owners so they couldn't award the prize

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/17/us/after-29-years-no-moon-trip.html
 
Boy, makes you wish that political elections could be done online eh?

"Wait a minute...this says 9,300 people in Nahant voted for Candidate X online."

"What's so odd about that?"

"Nahant only has 3,632 residents!" :)
 
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