This year? Executive producer Nigel Lythgoe just told me that online voting is going to be added this season. Though a publicist later told me it was not a done deal, Lythgoe’s exact quote to me was affirmative: “We are going to introduce online voting.”
Nigel Lythgoe: online voting is coming | American Idol
Nigel Lythgoe: online voting is coming | American Idol