Democracy..... A little over stressed?...

After what seemed to be a very long time, I had in my possession the remote control of the idiot box. I have no time for the Tv nowadays, and with the Conditional Access thingy, all my favourite channels gone, there is no point in watching the Tv anyway.
However, I did end up getting the remote control somehow. Like any teenager of this age, I started surfing the channels too, not bothering to stay put on one channel for no more than five seconds, no matter what was being telecasted.
One thing i did notice was the fact that many of the channels which have these reality shows going on such as - Jodi no.1, Launch pad or whatever crap.... all of them had this thing called "SMS VOTING".... The viewers are supposed to vote for the best contestant through SMS.
I dont get the point! They have well qualified judges, who know the stuff that is going on. What is the necessity of this SMS thingy?! I do appreciate the concept of audience participation that these channels are trying to promote. However, the worst part of it is, one can vote any number of times! Hence, this gives the contestant the advantage of voting for himself or herself any number of times and also make his/her relatives and friends vote many number of times, which is not democracy at all....
Looking at this from another point of view..... It was AIRTEL that sponsored 'Super Singer', and some other reality shows are being sponsored by leading mobile phone companies too.. Hence this whole SMS voting thing could be nothing but an eyewash and intended as a publicity stunt by the mobile phone companies, which means the people are being fooled... Thus it fails the purpose both ways AND makes the concept of having popular personalities as judges for the show totally absurd.... Democracy is good when it is real... not when it is just an illusion...
Either way, both the sponsoring company and the channel make good money.. and it does'nt hurt to send one SMS... everyone is happy in the end... which brings us to another question..'Why did i blog about this in the first place??' I do not know the answer to that one!