If you thought the voting scandal in Florida that saw George W become the 43rd president of the United States was about as big as it got you'd best think again.

As it turns out, the surprise to many that Adam Lambert hadn't actually won American Idol and that the dark horse Kris Allen had somehow managed to pull off the biggest upset in history now appears to have been rigged by block voting - thanks in part to AI corporate sponsor AT&T

Of course, AT&T claim that it was only reps who attended two parties in Allen's home state of Arkansas and that only 80 phones were given out. Some math has been done which suggests those 80 phones could only have drawn a maximum of 96,000 votes and that they wouldn't have affected the final result because the gap between Kris and Adam was a large margin.

Whether or not it didn't affect the outcome, it's still fairly dodgy to have a sponsor handing out tools that could assist in one person winning over the other. Especially when the other person's fans aren't treated in the same way. The bias stinks!

And as for the "large margin", what does that mean? Most polls had it either very close or swinging Adam's way. That didn't happen. This entire situation smells and could be damaging to the future of the show unless the voting system can be refined.