[ComfortEagle]

Even if they showed a vote count, what keeps them from just making up those numbers too?

I'm not sure that I believe the show is fixed because they haven't always gotten the "producer" favorite, so to say.

Season 2 came down to Reuben and Clay. Clay has been much more successful and popular. Season 3 winner was Fantasia Barrino......who remembers her?

Season 4 - Carrie Underwood, huge success

Season 5 - Taylor Hicks, more fun but not attractive as Katherine McPhee

If you watch reruns from season 1, you will realize that the singers were not as good as they are now, they are really pressing harder for talent now.

It does kind of seem like maybe the 2nd and 3rd seasons were fixed....but they may not have been and they have produced the worst winners so far. So I guess it's possible that after seasons like those they have decided to fix the results...to an extent.