u. s. senators were given the right to vote last.
u. s. senators were given the right to vote last.
who was given the right to vote last?
u. s. senators
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hundreds of viewers complained when, in week 5 of the live shows, cole abstained from voting against either of her acts who she mentored in the bottom two (cohen and waissel) and was not allowed to vote last in order to send the result to deadlock. when the time came for the judges to determine the result, cowell was asked to vote first and voted against cohen. however, o'leary then asked cole to vote second rather than last which traditionally occurs when a judge has two of their own acts in the sing-off. cole stated that she wanted to abstain from voting. when o'leary asked her to clarify what she meant, cole responded that she was abstaining at that point but wanted o'leary to ask minogue and walsh to cast their votes then ask cole again where she would vote last and send the result to deadlock. due to cole abstaining from voting against cohen or waissel when she was asked second, she was not allowed to send the result to deadlock. a spokesperson for "the x factor" explained: "a judge can abstain from placing a vote. cheryl made it clear that she would not send anyone home and therefore abstained from voting. dermot went back to her to clarify that it was going to go to a majority vote if she did that. cheryl was unable to take the vote to deadlock as deadlock requires a valid active vote." o'leary revealed that during the previous commercial break, when the bottom two was known to the producers, they realized that cole might abstain and decided that if she did, the result would be decided by a majority vote. after the series ended, voting statistics showed that cohen received more votes than waissel, meaning if cole was allowed to send the result to deadlock, cohen would have been saved and waissel would’ve been eliminated.
the x factor (british series 7)