Voting for Derek Hough and Nicole Scherzinger – the Manual
It’s that time of the year, gang – time to get organized. Now, Nicole has 50 plus thousand followers on twitter and I have no idea how many of them are clued in to voting on DWTS. So this is for them and for any new DWTS/Derek fans. There is a page on the Official DWTS Web page that explains voting, but they leave a few things out. Now, provided they haven’t changed anything (and I couldn’t find the voting page to check) here’s how it goes:
- Vote by Phone, number of votes per phone is usually equivalent to the number of dancers. So, on the first night (if they do voting on the first night) you get 11 votes per phone. PER PHONE, people. Your cell phone, your boyfriend’s cell phone, your home phone….you get the picture. You only have until 30 minutes until after the show ends to get your phone votes in – but you can start as soon as the show starts. Hopefully either Derek or Nicole will tweet their number BEFORE the show starts. Start early because it’s impossible once the show ends.
- Vote On-line during and after the show….and till noon eastern time the next morning. Now, you only get as many votes online as there are dancers… PER EMAIL address!! So, what do we do? We make more email addresses. Google, Yahoo, Hotmail, whatever. Guess what else – you can vote again using the same email addresses the next morning, or even after a period of time that night.
Did I leave anything out, Derek fans?? If you have problems voting by phone – like they say you’ve already voted all your votes using that phone and you know it’s not true – KEEP TRYING because there is a glitch in the system that makes that message says you’ve already voted play if the phone lines are overloaded. On-line issues? Close your browser and clear your cookies. If that doesn’t work, try a different browser, like Firefox or Google chrome or some such thing. Don’t give up!!
A little more than a week before the show starts – begin organizing your email addresses (and creating new ones, and registering them with DWTS.com).
MOST OF ALL – don’t ASSume that Derek and Nicole will be safe due to a high score. That is more true right at the beginning, but it’s not fool proof. I did a big write up on scores on PDWTS. Read it. Remember it. Why? Because we don’t want to see THIS again before the final:
We want to see LOTS OF THIS:
I love this tango, my favorite tango ever on dwts, i still hate marie osmond for taking Jennie spot on the finals
TEXT! Always works well
I remember this exit so well, I was sad and angry. At the time I use to split my votes but that was a lesson learned. It was a very beautiful ending though, especially love how they included a mini video of their journey. The show should really go back to this format, especially since they reduced the contestants to only 11. It was after this season that I decided to go to the DWTS tour, moreso, to see Derek perform live, it was so worth it.
Everyone must vote, vote and vote again. Make multiple email accounts. Heidi all my email accounts are older so they were not verified but have been able to continue using them each year. I am guessing it is the same but for some reason I am thinking someone at work told me it must be a working email now but I am not sure about this.
The more the better–so everyone make extra email accounts to use for voting for our fav Team HoughZinger!!!
I advocate making actual email accounts.
Just to be on the safe side. I meant register them with the site, not verify – if you verified last year you should be good for this year unless you have new ones.
Thanks for posting these Jennie videos…I LOVE them and had forgotten how YOUNG Derek was his first season. LOVED this pairing!! SO CUTE how Jennie says he’s so cute like a perfect lil’ Ken doll (and I thought I was the only one who refers to him as Ken) LOL
SO EXCITED FOR THIS SEASON WILL BE VOTING LIKE CRAZY….WAHOOOO TEAM HOUGHZINGER DO YOUR THING D-ZING! 
Jennie and Derek were robbed in season 5 so this works as a nice reminder for me.
That’s all part of my evil plan, Melissa.
It is possible to be the best dancer and LOSE. Don’t ever forget. 