It does. The idea of this proposal (which I oppose) is revoke all voting power immediately when you start a powering down. So you would continue to be a stakeholder until the power down plays out over 104 weeks, but would no longer have voting rights.
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@ned Powering down at half the rate and losing half voting power means doing so for twice as long to power down the same number of coins. There is effectively no difference.
Mathematically it works out to be an exit fee equal to 1 year of voting power (and associated rewards) for each coin powered down.
Do not think for a minute that the presence of such an exit fee won't deter and discourage entry, because it will, in addition to having extremely negative PR consequences. This is a terrible idea.
One can power down a portion of their stake, such as 50%, which means voting power loss only corresponding with that % stake, and they can stop a power down at anytime to regain voting rights on that portion of stake.