Voting Terms & Conditions - Miss America 2012
- Voting Eligibility and Dates:
The "Miss America 2012" voting is open to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States and the District of Columbia (including the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico) who are at least 16 years of age and physically located in the United States at time of voting. Voting is void where prohibited or restricted by law. Voting will be open beginning on Monday, December 12, 2011 at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time ("EST") and will end on Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 11:59pm PST ("Voting Period"). Voting times and dates are subject to change at The Miss America Organization's (the "Sponsor") sole discretion without notice.
There is a limit of one (1) vote per person and internet accessible device per contestant throughout the Voting Period, regardless of method of voting.
Employees of Sponsor, Ernst & Young, Villageous LLC ("Administrators"), and their respective parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies and members of their immediate families and persons living in the same household of such employees (whether or not related) are not eligible to vote.
- How to Vote:
Voting may be cast via one (1) of the following two (2) methods:
1) Online: To cast a vote via the Internet, go to www.missamerica.org/videocontest and follow the directions provided to select which contestant you want to vote for
2) Facebook: To cast a vote via Facebook, go to www.facebook.com/missamericaorganization and follow the directions provided to select which contestant you want to vote for.
The voting is being promoted on missamerica.org and Facebook.com/MissAmericaOrganization, but all votes will ultimately take place through one voting mechanism at one location, PollDaddy.com. Administrators will then verify your vote. Once your vote has been verified, it will be counted toward the applicable contestant. Once your vote has been cast you will not be able to retract it or change it. All votes become the property of Sponsor.
For further information or if you have a question(s) on how to vote, please email your question(s) to voting@missamerica.org. We will endeavor to respond to enquiries within 24 hours, except when received during a weekend or holiday
Voting information must be completed and verified in full in order for any vote to be counted. Proof of delivery or receipt of vote will not be deemed by Sponsor or Administrators as proof of vote. Any attempted form or method of voting other than as described herein is void.
- Conditions for Voting:
By submitting a vote, voters agree to be bound by these Terms & Conditions and that the decisions of the Sponsor, Administrators and judges are final and binding in all respects.
- Winner Determination:
One (1) Miss America contestant who receives the highest number of eligible and verified votes during the Voting Period will be chosen to participate as finalists in the Miss America Pageant. The contestant will be announced at the Miss America Pageant airing on Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 6:00pm PST.
- Disclaimers and Conditions:
ABC, The Miss America Pageant and program, their respective parents, subsidiaries and affiliated entities and any persons employed by any of the foregoing, are not responsible and shall not be liable for any losses/injuries or any kind resulting from lost, incomplete, late, damaged, delayed, garbled or misdirected votes; inability to access the voting; difficulties, failures or malfunctions of computers and/or Internet connections or wireless services or other communications malfunctions; interrupted or unavailable network, server; failed computer hardware or software or other technical failures; garbled, lost, misrouted or scrambled transmissions; any error, omission, interruption, defect or delay in any transmission or communication; traffic congestion or for any technical problem which may cause the voting to be disrupted or corrupted; computer on-line systems, telecast, or cable malfunctions; human error; satellite transmission failures or delayed telecasts or preemption of or the failure of a cable affiliate to televise the Miss America Pageant; any damage to entrants or any third person's computer and/or wireless device, and/or its contents related to or resulting from this promotion; any votes that are not in compliance with these Official Rules (such votes to be deemed disqualified), nor any other loss directly or indirectly caused by participation in this promotion or related voting.
Any attempt to deliberately damage, destroy, tamper or vandalize the www.missamerica.org website or interfere with the voting is a violation of criminal and civil laws. Sponsor may, in their sole discretion, cancel, suspend or modify this promotion, these Terms & Conditions, or any voting, at any time. In such case, up to one (1) Miss America contestant finalist will be selected from the eligible and verified votes received before termination, suspension, cancellation or modification of the Terms & Conditions, or as otherwise determined by Sponsors in their sole discretion.
Sponsors reserve the absolute right to disqualify any voter (and/or their respective vote(s)) who votes by any electronic, mechanical or automated means, or otherwise tampers with the voting process or promotion, or for any other reason, as determined by Sponsors in their sole discretion.
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