While Dancing with the Stars and America’s Got Talent rely on voters weighing in from home whose votes could be swayed by certain reaction footage being reused, The Masked Singer contestants are advanced or eliminated based on votes from the audience that watches live, with the results revealed when the recorded episodes finally air.
Why not The Masked Singer?
The 72nd Emmys reused audience reaction shots from a previous broadcast earlier this month without any issue, even if it was ultimately in service of a punchline from host Jimmy Kimmel.