The only possible changes to the voting process that I can think of are:
- Limit the number of votes allowed per phone, which will never happen because then they won't be able to brag about getting 40 million votes last night
- Charge a small fee per vote, which would probably not go over well with the public (although some other countries do it for their Idol shows)
- Switch from voting for the contestants you want to stay to voting against the ones you want to leave, which would probably result in the more interesting/controversial contestants going home early and the more bland inoffensive ones staying until the end
"There was this one time an alarm went off - it was in the middle of '24.' That's just wrong. Everyone knows everyone was watching '24' at that time."
--NYU student quoted in the Washington Square News about students ignoring the frequent fire alarms in dorms