Freddie Awards

Freddie Awards focus on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined not by how many votes a program receives but by the overall merits of each program as reflected in "Value Voting." Value Voting asks the voter to assign a number between one and 10 to the program he or she votes for. The popular vote is still important, however; to be eligible to win a Freddie Award, a program must receive at least 1 percent of the popular vote to qualify. This year, a total of 221,884 ballots were cast, accounting 3,128,564 individual choices being made by the voters of the Freddie Awards. One hundred percent of the Freddie ballots were cast via the Internet, as compared to 91 percent cast online in previous years. To ensure accuracy, votes were subject to four audits using a variety of technology and 18,419 suspect ballots were eliminated as they appeared to conflict with the "one traveler, one vote" ideology of the Freddies.