What happens with a 4-4 final tie vote at the end?
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Patman

Friday, August 23, 2002 - 12:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
At the end, you have 2 finalist, and 2 votes that get discarded (one by each finalist). That makes 8 votes in play. What happens if it is a 4-4 tie vote? Do the 2 finalists split the $500,000?

Cajunrambler

Friday, August 23, 2002 - 12:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Maybe Julie Chein or Arnold Shapiro will cast the tie breaker.

Seriously, I have no clue what they do. I still don't get how you would have a 4-4 split. They have 10 evicted HGs that will vote.

Animaldr

Friday, August 23, 2002 - 12:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
On BB2, didn't each finalist get to neutralize one of the jury member's votes? So, yes, there will be 8 votes and a 4-4 tie is possible.

Sanfranjoshfan

Friday, August 23, 2002 - 12:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I thought Arnie said that there were at least THRRE major twisits this year. I am personally hoping that when the votes are cast, they allow all of America to also call in and vote. America's collective majority vote would be the odd vote that would insure that no tie could happen.

Romans8_1

Friday, August 23, 2002 - 12:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
in case of tie ... maybe we get to vote.

Hmmm.

Wilsonatmd

Friday, August 23, 2002 - 12:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
That's what happened last year. The last America's Choice vote was to vote for the winner, and it was explicitly stated that the vote would decide it in case of a tie, which still could have happened despite the DQ. It seems that Nicole and Will chose their votes to eliminate in secret, so theoretically, they could have picked the same person and there could have been a tie. But since it wasn't needed, we never did find out who won the home audience vote.

Hollydaze

Friday, August 23, 2002 - 12:45 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Last year, the very last America's Choice was: In case of a tie, who do you want to see win BB? HOWEVER, last year, with Justin getting kicked out for the knife thing, and then Shannon's and Bunky's votes being nullified by Nicole and Will, we were left with 7 people voting, so no possible way there could be a tie. And I remember a thread on here where posters were mad that the last America's Choice was worthless.

Sanfranjoshfan

Friday, August 23, 2002 - 12:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
They actually had a call-in vote last year? If so, then I completely forgot it. I was a huge fan and I just don't recall having that opportunity.

Could it be that they planned to conduct an America's Choice tie-breaker call-in vote in case of a tie, but since there was no tie, they never conducted the call-in vote? That makes more sense because otherwise they would be charging folks a dollar each for casting a vote that was not even counted....wwhich sounds like a good case of fraud to me.

Hollydaze

Friday, August 23, 2002 - 12:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Oops, Wilson, you read my mind! :o)

Sanfranjoshfan

Friday, August 23, 2002 - 12:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
but like I said...I have no recollection of that at all.

...brain cells dying...one by one....over a looooong period of time....losing mind...memory....reasoning power.....

Superstar

Friday, August 23, 2002 - 12:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ok please bear with me. i am new at this. i am soooooo addicted to bb3 and just found this site. i am curious what happens to the evicted hg's. do they just go home? do they get to watch the show?

Crazydog

Friday, August 23, 2002 - 01:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I remember seeing the AC last year, and people called in even though there were only 9 voters. Oh you can be sure they collected the money and the votes were tabulated. Even though Justin was gone, theoretically they could have needed the tie-breaker if both Will and Nicole had nullified the same vote.

Hardy tried really hard to make it look like he was angry at Nicole, in the hopes that Will might think Hardy was a vote for him. It worked because Will nullified Bunky instead because he thought Bunky would have voted for Nicole (and he would have). If Nicole had thought Bunky was a vote for Will, she might have nullified him as well. And then America's Choice would have come into play if there was a tie.

I think people here were irritated that they spent the money yet BB didn't even reveal the results. I think it's probably because it was something like 80-20 Will and they didn't want to embarrass Nicole.