Uh-oh! The phone votes scandals refuse to die!

Latest on the block is the Dancing On Ice final - Vodafone have owned up losing 11,500 votes on the Saturday night final. Now, while I’m sure the scandal makes for great headlines (The Star is running with TV ICE DANCE FINAL A CON), the reality is that the missing votes only account for less than 1% of the total, and anyone whose vote was missed gets a refund.

I think that’s fair enough, don’t you?

It would be nice if ITV released the final vote percentages so that we can see for ourselves how close the competition was and how much of an impact 1% of votes would have made.

If the missing votes were representative of the other votes, then there was probably a fairly good spread between contestants anyway. Unless there was a problem voting for a specific contestant like Claire.

Maybe we need to see more transparency in television phone votes?