FYI, Dan or Ned (can't remember which), up-voted a post for steemvoter once a long time ago. On my account, not steemvoters account. It explained the plan if I remembered correctly, and was a blog post that the steemvoters had voted on.
So, I don't think your assumptions are correct.
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