This guy Bergeron should be disqualified if it can be proved he asked people to deliberately vote songs down that were above his position. This will just encourage other people to do the same.

I am totally in favour of not knowing a songs position till after the contest to prevent this sort of thing. I also think voting songs as the same should be abandoned. In fact I do not agree with degrees either it should be a straight choice of which song is better one or the other. This would remove temptation to cheat and get fairer results. I know for a fact that a lot of people are voting same to lump many songs together so that a song voted far better jumps many places.