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Winning song is snubbed

Count the chads! Last week, "Good Morning America" hosts Diane Sawyer and Charles Gibson announced that the rock group Bon Jovi would perform a song selected by an Internet vote of viewers from a list of five hits live from -- ta-da -- Florida.

Voting ended Thursday night, with the plaintive ballad "I'll Be There for You" the clear winner.

But when Jon Bon Jovi took the stage, he was told the winner was the raucous "It's My Life."

"The voting was very close, and I made a decision to go with 'It's My Life,' " producer Shelley Ross of "GMA" told the New York Daily News. "You're right that the ballad won out. It was a last-minute decision that I made to go with an upbeat song that is a fan-based favorite."