'American Idol' to assign additional voting phone numbers for finale... but will it matter?
Attempting to quell the ongoing controversy over the program's voting system, the producers of FOX's American Idol have announced that Fantasia Barrino and Diana DeGarmo, the two finalists left competing for this season's Idol title, will have additional voting phone numbers allocated to them for the show's finale voting. FOX had also previously announced that as it did last year, the finale's voting period would also be extended from two hours to four hours.