Zach Anner Loses 6.5 Million Votes on Oprah Contest
posted on Jul 14 by Amelia in the Advocacy, Cerebral Palsy, Disability Discrimination, Disability Law, Disability News, Interesting Links, Opinion and Discussion category
We continue with the drama unfolding for Zach Anner, a comedian with cerebral palsy, and Oprah’s television show contest potentially being rigged against him. Oprah has had a contest for a chance to host your own television show series on Oprah’s new tv network OWN! As part of this contest, people have been submitting videos of themselves from all over the world, and anyone that drop by the Oprah website get to vote daily. Zach Anner was in first place by a landslide and has had his votes changed dramatically downwards more than once with many people online taking snapshots or commenting. (see previous blog about Zach Anner and Oprah Contest being Rigged) Now the contest results have been posted on her website, and the results have made our jaw drop. In the final results, Zach Anner ranks #7.
Even more jaw-dropping… you can actually still see where Zach is/was leading everyone by millions of votes on another page of Oprah’s own website.
1. Oprah page where Zach Anner is leading everyone in the contest with 9,161,042 votes (click to zoom)
Website address: http://myown.oprah.com/audition/index.html?request=browse&promo_cat_id=&order=total#browse_top
2. Oprah page with final television contest finalist results where Zach Anner is in 7th position with 3,484,018 votes: (click to zoom)
Website address: http://myown.oprah.com/audition/index.html?request=finalists
Regardless of being #7, Zach will get a chance to head to Los Angeles for the final round of auditions. The upcoming Oprah Winfrey Network and producer Mark Burnett said they were “so pleased with the turnout that they extended the intitial invitation to the top five vote-getters to an additional three — including Zach Anner.” So total now, there will be 5 online winners, 35 on location winners, and 3 additional “fan favorites” picked online.
It’s seemingly apparent that Zach Anner has been a fan favorite all along, and the votes have been unaccounted.
Oprah – what are you and/or your people doing?
View the original blog entry about Zach Anner and his audition for the Oprah television host contest
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Twitter Trackbacks for Zach Anner Loses 6.5 Million Votes on Oprah Contest | Wheelchair Accessibility Blog and Disability News [amsvans.com] on Topsy.com, posted this comment on Jul 14th, 2010
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Oprah Faces More Alleged Discrimination Against Disabled | Wheelchair Accessibility Blog and Disability News, posted this comment on Aug 17th, 2010
[...] Oprah was in the news earlier this year with Zach Anner, a comedian with cerebral palsy who tried out for her tv show. Anner mysteriously lost 6.5 million votes on the voting area of Oprah’s website, and a few tech savvy users discovered that the voting button was different for Zach Anner than it was for the other contestants. AMS Vans also captured a screenshot of the voting differences on one of several blog posts we have about Zach Anner and the Oprah allegations in a previous blog post here: http://www.amsvans.com/blog/1483-zach-anner-loses-6-5-million-votes-on-oprah-contest/ [...]
missy wilson, posted this comment on Apr 17th, 2011
It may have been rigged, although I doubt it, but if it was- think of all the exposure everyone got, which could open the back door for people.
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Kort Pleco, posted this comment on Jul 14th, 2010
Oprah says:
“This is how I looked when I had a dream about a giant delicious cheeseburger!”
“My head is this big!”
“Peek-a-boo!”
*invisible camera*