One more question, can't folks set a witness vote proxy?
YES! I myself proxy for a good many folks already.
It seems the easiest way is to write in your choice of proxy voter representative on https://hive.blog/~witnesses at the bottom of the page. I am sure there are other places you can set it as well, on peakd or ecency, but I have not looked them up. This link will do it for ya.
@summertooth, not sure.