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* ''[[Dancing With the Stars]]'': a complicated scoring hybrid, both the judges' scores and the TV audience votes (via phone, text message, or website) determine who goes home. In case of a tie, the audience vote is the tie-breaker.
** Originally the actual numbers didn't matter, only rankings. After this led to undeserving contestants very nearly winning in the first two seasons, it changed to weighted percentages.
* ''[[Hell's Kitchen|Hells Kitchen]]'': Fellow competitors vote for who should leave the kitchen, but [[The Mean Brit]] has the final say. He's even added people to the chopping block, or straight-out kicked people without even letting them get their say. On the other hand, on a couple of occasions he's mixed it up by asking one of the losing team members who s/he thinks should go.
** ''[[The Biggest Loser]]'' works the other way: an objective weigh-in determines who will be liable for elimination, then the losing team has to vote off one of their own members. The winning team has no say in the matter.
* ''[[Big Brother]]''. Most nations have this as something the viewing public does via a phone line; the US version had it for the first season, but switched over to an internal system among the contestants for later seasons.
* ''[[Canada's Worst Driver]]'' is an inversion; a team of judges vote on who 'graduates', getting their keys or license back and leaving the Driver Rehabilitation Center...in this Reality Show, leaving is a GOOD thing. The longer you're on, the worse you are!
** Yes, this means the winner of the series is decided in the second episode (which is the earliest someone can graduate from rehab), but the whole point of watching the show is to see who the loser is.
* In ''[[The Apprentice (TV series)|The Apprentice]]'' the losing team leader has to bring back one or two team-mates who have performed badly on the task. The boss then decides who has performed the worst, and fires them; usually he fires just the worst performer, but will occasionally fire two or three people.
* In ''[[The Weakest Link]]'', the contestants would vote to determine who would not go to the next round. This usually resulted in [[Tall Poppy Syndrome|the best players being eliminated]].
* [[The History Channel]]'s ''[[Top Shot]]'' has the members of the team choose the two members to have a competition (one of whom goes home) by shooting a ''handgun'' at a target with the person's name.
* Used as a punishment in later seasons of [[MTV]]'s ''[[Road Rules]]''. The vote was only cast <s>if</s> when the team failed a mission.
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