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This time was interesting, since he never showed votes for anyone but Chet--usually he would have read Chet's own vote (for Erik), probably second. This may be the first time that ONLY votes for the bootee were shown, when there were more than one for someone else.

This has happened at least twice before, they didn't show Jim's vote for Margaret and JFP's vote for Ozzy. In all of the cases so far, the voters said in their confessional that the votes "meant nothing", so I guess the rule is is that if a vote is just a throwaway, they won't show it (on the edited show at least)

No, that's not what I said--I said "when there were more than one vote for someone else." In the case of Margaret, Ozzy, and the others, it was a Unanimous vote for the bootee, plus the bootee's own vote which obviuosly was for someone else. But this time, it wasn't a unanimous vote and TWO votes went to a non-bootee

Back in the early days--ironically enough, when past votes actually counted for something--I know that Varner said Kimmi's vote wasn't read when she got out (hence his "One that I know of" comment after the merge tie) and IIRC Silas said somewhere that his vote against Frank wasn't read either. The producers are lucky neither vote came into play later because that's pretty undeniable rigging.

I remember those, but of course, if those votes HAD made a difference, they would have edited them to be shown.

For everyone's benefit, the complete list of unrevealed, non-bootee votes:

Kimmi's vote for Jeff
Silas's vote for Frank
Teresa's vote for Tom
Gabriel's vote for Rob
Jake's vote for Jan
Shawna's vote for Christy
Jim's vote for Margaret
Terry's vote for Aras
Fairplay's vote for Ozzy
Tracy and Chet's votes for Erik

Thanks--and as I said, the only time TWO votes were for a non-bootee was this time, for Erik.

do they read them live in a different order and then jeff goes back and reads them again once the editors have decied whose votes they will show during the episode?

No, they arrange them in what will be a "suspenseful" reveal for the contestants, but of course most importantly, suspenseful for the audience. The latter part may need to be manipulated in editing, but they must try to keep it suspenseful "live" as well, if only to get the "OMG" facial expressions such as Edgardo's and Alex's. I've noticed lately (last few seasons) that it seems that Jeff often shows the votes written by the two possibilities first (and we are also shown them writing them), since they are the least suspenseful--this only works in those weeks where there are two pretty obvious choices, of course.

BTW, in the British Survivor, season 2, for the final (jury) reveal, they not only left them in the exact order they had been put in, but the host "reminded" everyone who's vote was which (since they had voted in jury order) and he would say "So that means this vote was John's..." etc. I thought that was a horrible way to do it!