From Variety · Emily Longeretta · · 1m
DWTS premiere hit by voting glitch
Season 35 opened with online voting down, text votes counting, and two Connors making instructions extra messy.
In brief
Season 35 opened with online voting down, text votes counting, and two Connors making instructions extra messy. For premiere night, only text votes counted after DWTS scrapped online votes because of a voting glitch. Originally reported by Variety.
Premiere night snag
Season 35 of Dancing With the Stars opened Sept. 15 with a voting problem almost as soon as the competition began.
““Dancing With the Stars” may have had too many voters than it could handle.”
Online voting went down
After the second dance, hosts Julianne Hough and Alfonso Ribeiro told viewers the online voting system was down.
“online voting is down”
Text votes only
The show switched the first night to text voting, making phone-in support the only valid way for audiences to vote.
“audiences could only vote via text”
Online votes tossed
After the third number, the hosts said any online votes that had gone through would not count for premiere night.
“all online votes that did go through would be thrown out”
Two Connors complicated it
Viewers also had to distinguish between Conner Leavitt and Connor Wood by texting Conner L or Connor W.
“there are two different Connor/ers in this competition”
In short
For premiere night, only text votes counted after DWTS scrapped online votes because of a voting glitch.
