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Votes happen in steem. Free on leo but not on steem, still uses VP/SP.

Blockchain actually does not record what UI a vote is even submitted through.

No, but in theory a UI could make its downvote button only apply to its own token and not send a downvote command to the blockchain that looked like an SP downvote.

In theory they could, if downvotes were recorded as json transactions instead of as votes.

That was my thinking.

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Ok thanks a bunch for the information!👍👍👍😄

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I actually just asked a while ago in their intro post, waiting for a reply back, I mentioned you and your question there. Its a great question!👍👍👍