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OMG OMG WTF, was all I was thinking when I heard that Jason Hartman who was announced 2nd in Idols after Sasha-Lee was the winner last Sunday they now will share the winner title of Idols. After much counting and deliberation from a technical glitch that saw over thousands of smses and phone in votes being recounted and tallied, they were both announced winners at around 1noon todat at M-Net. Jason got 1,3 miillion votes beating Sasha-Lee who had 1,1million votes, meaning that technically Jason is the winner. I feel so bad for poor Sasha-Lee, because now its known that she was the 2nd runner up and Jason as the winner. But then I also feel pity forJason that he never got all the publicity that she got last week Sunday. Oh well, I know there wont be an Idols competition for years now,until all this bowls over and settles in many of the voters minds.

So if you have not heard about Idols then you have not been catching up with The Times. So Sunday you might know that Sasha-Lee Davids was announced the winner for season five , but after a mess up by Vodacom , MTN and Cell C, Davids could be loosing the prizes and the title to runner up Jason Hartman. Basically what happened is that, when people voting on Sunday there was a problem with a ll the communication servers as some votes did not get through to the counting of votes, even people that cast their votes between 18h00-18h30, had a problem. So after several complaint from people saying that they could not vote between that time via phone-ins or sms , M-Net has had to recount their votes because of that. READ a synopsis of my story from The Times today: Sasha Lee Davids’ Idols crown hangs in the balance due to a technical glitch with voting procedures on Sunday. It has emerged that cellphone network irregularities may mean that a "significant number" of votes m...