Elliot kicked off because of 100,000 votes

American Idol - no surprise - Elliot went home.

Ryan said that there were 50 million votes last night of which
Taylor got 33.68%
Katherine got 33.20%
Elliot got 33.06%

which means that

Taylor got 16,840,000 million votes
Katherine got 16,630,000 million votes and
poor Elliot got 16,530,000 million votes.

So he lost by 100,000 votes.

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