I live in Kentucky and the show ended at 9 p.m. and the phone lines closed at 1 a.m. I drank lots and lots of coffee. I had a bunch of friends voting as well. We all took a different line and voted our collective butts off. The phone lines where busy till 1 a.m. Four hours of voting and total lack of sleep. Got back up a 5:30 a.m. to go to work. It will all be worth it tonite when DC takes the title of American Idol.

I did! And my ass is dragging because of it today but it's worth it.. regardless of what happens, we all know that DC will outsale Archie in cds.. AND that DC is more talented.. and he has major balls..

4 hours and 5 minutes...I started at 8:55 pm, and did not stop until 1 am! GO DC--we love you!

I voted for 3 hours and 15 minutes, it was damn hard to make gizmo works at the begginning

I started voting 5 minutes before the show ended and continued for the next four hours.

Our group of 12 , worked our thumbs raw from 8:55 PM until 1 AM when the lines closed , we reminisced about David Cook's journey for about 2 more hours and then we crashed as most of us had to be at work or class early this morning.

It will all be worth it tonight !

Is it 8 PM yet ?????

I did! I wish I was able to get more votes in then I did. I had to deal with that annoying busy signal. (Although now that i think about it, if it was busy, that's a good thing!) I did vote for four hours.

4 hours and 5 minutes here too. Anyone else's fingers hurt? I know mine do, and I'm pretty sure that my end and send buttons on my phone a rubbed off

I voted for 7 hours and 9 minutes. Group of 3 of us with multiple phones started to get through at 8:51 pm ET, and I have a houseguest with a CA mobile phone, so I/we stayed up to vote West Coast, too! That hour overlap between East Coast ending and West Coast starting was madness -- I was manning four phones at that point!

No sleep for me! But it's all for a good cause!

Kudos to you, that's commitment right there. I wanted to download Gizmo and vote the entire time but by 1am I was crashing hard. But congrats to you!

Girl - I couldn't have said better myself.

I started voting at 8:50 and didn't stop until 1:15. My ass is draging today, but it's well worth it! Anything for DC!

4hours with Gizmo....hand was cramping but definitely worth it
David Cook so deserves the win.... GO DC!!!

Landline: 4 hours and 5 minutes. But also text messaging for 4 hours.

I started voting as soon as the lines opened... I think it was 8:55... and then I called and texted until about 12:30am.. then I just kept texting until 1am... then I passed out. My wrists and hands are so achy today--but it's so worth it!!

And I thought this was funny--after about 750 texts, this is all I have to show for it??

Idol: This once only msg confirms your vote for David C. Vote as often as U like B4 voting closes. Results Wed only on FOX!

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I voted the full 4 hours. Never voted that hard in my life!

I had busy signals constantly the first hour and then again midnight to 1 am.

It was all worth it!

We voted from 9am to 4pm here! it was CRAZYYYY but fullfilling!

I voted all 4 hours and my family thought I was crazy, but nonetheless cheered me on. lol I had two phones going and only wish I could have gotten a few text votes in. But, I did tell my MySpace friends to vote and hope they came through.

I did. I am pretty tired today, but I voted like there would be no tomorrow. I think I got in over 1000 texts for sure, and at least 300 land line votes, but there were a lot of busy signals. I just kept flip-flopping between the lines, until it would ring through.

I want to say that I was very inspired by everyone on here, and though I was sitting up by myself in my living room, I never felt alone or lonely in my toil.

YES! I have never voted so hard, either!! I had cell phone in left hand and land line in right hand. All four hours nonstop. I stayed off the boards so I could devote every second to voting. Gosh, my fingers were really cramping when it was over and I am exhausted today! Didn't sleep much and I kept hearing the busy signal in my head when I was trying to sleep! Although the lines were busy the entire 4 hrs, I am confident I still got in a lot of votes for our King David.

my husband and i were up until 1am casting votes for DC. it was a sexy time

4 hours and five minutes here Voting ended at 8 am and I haven't slept a bit after it.My hand is hurting for the clicking and eyes are hurting for staring the computerscreen for 4+ hours...But it was all worth it.

OMG - I sent out a message to all my myspace friends too. Great minds etc.

I did! And I'm exhausted! But I'm hoping it was worth it! Either way, DC was amazing and he's my Idol!

I started at 8:55 ended at 1am Im tired LOL

We started at 15 minutes 'til and went until about 15-20 minutes after so about 4 1/2 hours total I'd say. Then I couldn't sleep because my adrenaline was still coursing!!

I lost track of how many votes I put in... I started right at 9 with my boyfriends Iphone (AT&T) and my tally sheet .. I lost count after 2,000 txts... I know it's out of my hands- but I can't help but feel nervous about tonight!!

I know we did it- David Cook IS our American Idol

I mean c'mon... 180lbs of Cook VS 100 lbs when soaking wet of Archuleta... (I know I'm not the only one who laughed at that)

I DID! I lasted for 4hours! I got in a total of 1550 Gizmo votes i really hope we can make Cook win!

I voted for 4 hours straight!!! I had my cell phone in one hand and I took my mom's phone from her and voted with her cell phone in my other hand, lol.

Has anyone noticed that you can get in way more times on a cell than on a land line?

4 straight hours for me.

The first 90 minutes was spent dialing the numbers on my cellphone, as I was frantically trying to get internet access, plus setting-up of Gizmo. When that was done, I switched to voting via Gizmo. But from time to time, whenever it baled on me, I turned back to my cellphone and redialed the numbers.

After 4 hours, when all 3 lines went dead, mission was accomplished, with my cellphone on the brink of a flat battery.

Though I didn't really count properly, the number of votes sent in was approximately 2,000 - with 25% of them via Gizmo, and 75% via cellphone.

Okay, enough said from me. I think I may have bored too many people here who are reading my post.

I started at 8:59pm EST and stopped when Gizmo stopped working at around 2:15am or something. Between texting, Gizmo and calling I voted around 700-800 times which is a big deal for me.

I tried for 4 hours. But I don't think their lines liked my phone very much. It was 9:16 before I even heard "the voice" and I would say I only got through Once for every 15-20 calls I tried to make.

I voted for the full four hours. I was so annoyed at Simon's comments that I dragged our other land line in from the kitchen to the computer room with a cord extension and used two land lines and texted on my go phone. I had only planned to go with one land line + text. The phone lines were busier in Illinois than in the past but I still got quite a few votes in on the land lines. Thank god I had made a lot of draft messages ahead for text. I was getting text sending busy messages part of the time but got a lot of resends to go through, too.

This outed me to my husband who previously didn't know I voted like a fiend in weeks past but DCFTW!


Afterwards I did pre-orders for Cook's 3 videos from last light to remind AI who has been their golden goose on Itunes has been all season.

Now it is in the producers hands and I don't totally trust them.

All 4 hours. I don't know if this was the producers plan all along to get me fired up, but fired up I was. I was glued to this chair the entire time with two phones and only got up twice....once to get my cell charger and the other to grab a phone that still had a charge. My husband used another line we have the entire 4 hours. My daughter had to work, but got about 2 hours in after she got home on her cellphone. Fingers crossed it is enough. I am in agreement, though.....not sure I trust TPTB on that show anymore.

Jeannine

4 hours and 5 minutes for me on 3 phones! Whew, that was hard! I do have to give a big thanks to all you east coasters keeping me entertained last night! I have never voted for ANYONE for 4 hours!!! I was so mad at the judges comments I couldn't stop! My husband has never voted before, even for DC, and he was so mad last night he ended up voting for 2 hours on 2 other phones!!!!

I started voting for David Cook at 10pm and voted on all 3 phone lines until 1am on the California side (3 hours straight). I totally disagreed with the judges this week on David Cook's performances, so I gave David Cook 1,000+ plus votes last night on all 3 phone lines. Christina

i voted from 9pm to 12:45am and got in 200 votes..im so tired lol

I voted for 4 hours and 5 minutes, started at 8:55pm. He too is my IDOL!

I too voted the full 4 hours.....and Wow...I didn't want to get out of bed this morning to go to work...UGH...
But it was ALL Worth it!!!

LOL at the section about the text message reply!! All our hard work for that??!!

I voted all 4 hours, with a break to tuck in kids, and small 1-2 min breaks here and there to type and read the boards to stay energized. It's the longest I've ever dialed and I dialed up until the last second.

No regrets here!

My cousin voted for me! He's blind, and he voted the entire time.... I joked, I said are you sure you got the right number;) He called me at one, and said "your lucky i love you..." and David...That's the thing, people dont have to see David to fall in love, they just have to hear him, when he opens his mouth to sing. Again, you all are amazing!!!
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voted all nite then pulled an all niter cause I had to take my test at the hospital at like 6 this morning so i studied all the things I had to do for my supervisor

I yawned during my test and he looked at me strange and asked why i was tired at 6 in the morning and I just laughed and said I stayed up late (would be bad to say i pulled an all niter i thought) voting for american idol. he laughed and said his teen daughter stayed up voting for DC as well til 1 and went late to school this morning!

I voted for the entire 4 hrs. 10 minutes with one land line and one cell phone. I switched to two cell phones later in the night (wish I'd done that a LOT earlier) and the cell phones re-dialed a lot faster than the land line once I was able to get through on most calls. I got over 1,100 votes in during the 4 hours, but probably would have gotten an additional 500-800 votes in just in the last hour had I been using just the two cell phones. Well, live and learn. Hope it was enough! DC for the win!

I voted the whole 4 hours! I had never made as concerted an effort to vote for ANY Idol until last night... I only hope I helped the cause enough!

i did. i had lunch while i was voting with my cellphone. during bathroom breaks, my cell phone was with me. i voted for like 5 hours because i could still go through the lines.

Yeah 180lbs of twisted steel and sex appeal

All four hours, Go Phone in one hand, cell phone in the other. Locked myself in my room at 9 p.m. and got down to business. It turned out my Go Phone would only send texts to 10 recipients at a time, but I programmed all 10 contacts to "5701" and got it down to a science.

I could send the word "vote" to all 10 recipients with about 30 seconds of thumb action, then make calls on my cell phone with the other hand while the first five text votes were going through. Then I reloaded the text votes, hit "Send," and made more calls on my cell for the five-vote window.

There was never a point in the four-hour time window during which my Go Phone was not voting, and I got about 100 cell votes through with my left hand, despite the fact that all three of Cookie's lines were busy as HELL for the whole four hours (they were also busy when I made a test call at 3 a.m. just to see, because I couldn't sleep).

Guesstimating somewhere between 1,000-1,100 votes total, with a voting operation of two very cramped and aching hands, but hey. The last full measure of devotion, right?

P.S. I HATED what Simon said, but I feel like it got every single Cook fan in the country, from every possible demographic, to the phone like an effing ARMY. People who never would have sent in more than one or two votes at most, or who liked him but might not have voted at all, were voting their fingers raw all night in rage. I think Simon might have done it deliberately and will make up for it tonight when Cook gets the confetti, but he will have a LOT of making up to do. A LOT.

YES!!! I didn't give up:) I got 2,450 votes in!! I could barely get through--I really feel that he's won!!!

That line gave me cold chills and I absolutely couldn't agree more.. the main reason I love David is because of his voice.. his looks and personality are just bonus'.