[alex_front2]

How do we know that C5 won't evict Aaron and claim he got less votes than Jem when the vote count is no longer verified by an independent adjudicator and the % no longer published?

And don't for one minute refuse to believe that C5 wouldn't stoop so low. What's stopping them? Who's gonna know when only they know the voting %

No of course not. Ahem.

[Vicky.]

The votes are still verified by an independant company.

So no.

[luminoussun]

Big brother have to have a independant company count the votes by law.
They would be took off the air for fixing the votes now.
The only thing i heard of is closing lines so one contestant has 2 lines open and the other has 30 so you can't vote as much.

[Angus]

The votes are monitored and scrutinised by Electoral Reform Services and we would have the right to contact them if we thought there had been a fix.

http://www.erbs.co.uk/

Also Channel 5 would be committing fraud if they tried to pull something that devious, ie. taking money by deception.

[Marmalite]

Didn't they close the line or something for Maisy when it was the Faye vs Maisy eviction?

I don't know if it's true but I heard from someone who tried to vote for Maisy for over 30 minutes could not get through.

[MartianMark]

I had a question like this a few weeks ago and a few forum members told me that there still is an Independent third party that collects and verifies the votes. Apparently any kind of tampering is prohibited and would be met with hefty fines. If they wanted to screw with the votes they would have done it in Week 5 and announced Jay over Aaron if that was the case. With this information, we can at least find some comfort in knowing the votes don't lie.