April 20, 2007
Loser Goes First
A community-college instructor in suburban Chicago has achieved minor celebrity for rigging an election that is closely watched by millions of Americans.
Dave Della Terza, a 24-year-old part-time instructor in television studies at the College of Du Page, is the brains behind the Web site http://votefortheworst.com, which seeks to subvert the polling for the television show American Idol. Plenty of visitors to his site are voting contrarily — in part to aggravate its
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