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The online vote for Most Favorite title began on August 10. Nguyen Thuy Kieu Tien, Ho Thi Oanh Yen, Ton Diep Nhat Trang were always at the top of voter rankings. However, on August 18, Phan Thi Ly, who ranked far behind, suddenly got more than 41,000 votes to move into first.
The organizers asked technicians to check the system and found out that someone hacked the site to raise the number of votes for some contestants. As the online vote will close on August 21, theorganizers said they would not have time to fix the error so they decided to not choose a Most Favorite winner.
Paging fees will be returned to the audience who sent text messages to vote for their contestants via number 8501.
Chief organizer Nguyen Trong Hien said that this is a very interesting title but the organizing board anticipated possible fraud, stipulating that the Most Favorite title winner would not enter the top 15 contestants.
“This is a very regrettable incident. We have tried to seek solutions to fix the system but we are afraid we will not have timely, accurate results before the final night on August 21,” Hien said.
“This is a difficult decision but for the fairness, transparency, and seriousness of this pageant, we must stop this vote. We will learn from this experience and avoid it the next time. We condemn these individuals, who because of their unhealthy personal reasons, frustrated a highly interactive competition.”
On behalf of the organizing board, Hien apologized to the audience who supported the pageant.
This is the second incident at Miss Vietnam World 2010. Earlier, Pham Thi Thuy Linh from HCM City had to give back her Miss Ao Dai title and leave the pageant afterorganizers discovered that she had cosmetic nose surgery five years ago.
PV
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