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| | "Idol" Voting Slammed - May 17, 2004 - E! Online News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | May 17, 2004, 4:35 PM PT When it comes to American Idol fans, middle-aged housewives with limited patience are no match for so-called "power dialers" and cell-phone-equipped text messagers. |
 | | The piece comes less than a week after Idol's latest voting controversy, in which polished wedding-band belter La Toya London was bounced from the show with three weeks to go, having failed to secure enough votes to place her ahead of the shakier likes of Hawaiian teen Jasmine Trias. |
 | | In a telephone press conference with reporters Friday, the poised London conceded that something as old-fashioned as personality, or lack of apparent one, may have been the reason she was sent packing. |
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