WWE Announces Technical Issues with Voting for RAW

[Troy]

WWE issued the following statement on Twitter:
"Technical errors occurred in some of the voting results during Raw: Power to the People. Check with WWE.com throughout the day for more."

The earlier "technical issue" WWE mentioned earlier today was a "voting backlog" from the Divas match that was counted towards the voting for Evan Bourne's opponent. So, fans that voted "B" for Kelly Kelly had their votes counted instead for Mason Ryan.

On WWE's Facebook, the company posted "Sham vote screws Sin Cara: WWE apologizes to the WWE Universe, Raw's "Power to the People" voters, and especially Sin Cara and Evan Bourne. The match vote was inaccurate due to a heavy backlog of votes from the Divas Title Match. More details on WWE.com throughout the day."

WWE announced on their website that issues with tabulating the mobile voting resulted in the Dolph Ziggler vs. Kofi Kingston bout on Raw being booked as a Best of Three Falls bout. The actual winning stipulation was Vickie Guerrero being banned from ringside.

WWE noted that the other voting results (beyond the aforementioned Evan Bourne opposition voting) were tabulated correctly as announced.

WWE announced the following on their website:

"Regrettably, technical difficulties occurred once more leading up to the night’s Six-Man Tag Team Match main event, when it became apparent to WWE management that text votes were again not being tabulated properly. At this time, a decision was made to turn to WWE.com’s Live Chat Poll for the official judgment. With the power still in the hands of the people, the WWE Universe selected the Elimination Match (option C) by an overwhelming 87 percent, leading to this stipulation being enacted."

Someone screwed up big time.

Everyone in the RAW thread knew that Mason Ryan wasn't the right choice and at least now we have an explanation for why it happened. WWE has announced that next week on RAW we will see Evan Bourne vs. Sin Cara.

Can't see WWE running this again. A better way would be to announce the stipulations a few days in advance and let people vote before RAW rating than during it.

 

[Lucky]

I'm still not sold on this and may have to call out BS on this.

It just makes it to easy to say, "Yeah okay, Mason Ryan" when WWE has been pushing him and Sin Cara's on a completely different brand.

 

[Seak]

If anyone honestly believed their votes were being counted, they have to be completely Blue. It's just that after the show a shit load of fans were talking and WWE had to address the rumors somehow. They said the arm wrestling match was the real choice, but who the hell voted for an arm wrestling match?! The "this is stupid" chant should have been a dead giveaway!

 

[Troy]

As a publicly traded company I can't see them messing with the results. They loaded the options enough to ensure that people would vote for specific people. They clearly wanted Sin Cara to wrestle Bourne, they would never have wanted it to be Mason Ryan. Bourne is coming off a push and a PPV win and they wanted him to face a high flyer from Smackdown.

With the arm wrestling were the other options any better? Over the top rope and bodyslam aren't the best match options. It would have ended the same way anyway with Henry taking out Kane.

 

[Lucky]

You're right Troy, the other options weren't any better. Either way it was going to play out the same way.

 

[Troy]

It was pretty stupid of them to use the same number for every match. If they had a seperate number for each match this issue would never have happened.

 

[Lucky]

They used letters but yeah you're right haha

 

[Troy]

I meant they used the same phone number rather than having a seperate phone number for each match. Even if they had A,B,C for all the matches if every phone number was different they wouldn't have had this issue.