Although I would have been appalled if Adam went out last night, it would have been just what American Idol needed to experience to change the way voting is done.  It’s ridiculous that I could hypothetically vote for an opponent up the amount of text messages that I could send in two hours.  That’s stupid!  Also, I told Hailey at the moment of its conception that the judge’s save would be a disaster.  It should have been used only up to the Top 10 and maybe the Top 8.  Never should it have been used up to the Top 5.  Alexis should have gotten the save when she went out in 11th.  She clearly had a better chance of winning over at least Megan, Michael and Scott.  Also, it was much earlier in the game and would have been much better used then instead of saving Matt that all only comprised the integrity of the competition.  Even Simon said, “You don’t have a chance at winning.”  Then, they saved him and pretty much hung Anoop out to dry.  Obviously, voters are going to vote for the guy that way saved and in effect Anoop was the victim of that entire mess.

Anyways, back to the voting process.  AI needs to stop letting people vote an unlimited amount of times just so Seacrest can say, “We had 35, 37, 42, 47 million votes!  A new record!”  Adam almost got knocked off because people are voting for who they don’t want to get knocked off and not who is the next American Idol.  The only reason the save was necessary was because of this.  Here’s a solution to the problem

First, I think it would be better for voters to vote for who they want to be ELIMINATED rather than to stay on until there are 10 contestants remaining.  This will most likely never happen though since it will confuse people once you start to vote for the contestant that you want to stay.

Voters should have 6 votes with 11-16 contestants remaining, 5 votes with 9-10 remaining, 4 votes with 7-8, 3 votes with 5-6, 2 votes with 4 and 1 vote with 2-3.  Each phone number can vote for each contestantly only once per week.  The remainder of the votes can be used on the other contestants.  Lets get rid of the judge’s save and not lettle Paula babble on so that they run out of time every other week.

Until then things change, please vote endlessly on Kris Allen FTW!