I suppose it's no shocker that the majority of smaller fish aren't voting for any witnesses, given their makeup. I guess i'm not all that surprised that a lot of the larger fish aren't voting for anyone either, especially since there's duplicate accounts among them, too. That means in some cases, they might actually be doing the honorable thing? I guess without going any deeper it would be tough to determine how much of the multiple accounts in higher SP were or weren't voting with multiple accounts.
The scope of this analysis did not address this, but it only seems to reinforce in my mind one thing: High SP is still high SP. As the whales and orcas go, so go the Top Witnesses. As much as we might want everyone who's still around to vote for witnesses, with as much diversity of thought, I wonder just what effect it would have overall. Would it just strengthen positions, or would it dilute them? Maybe both, but my guess would be more of the former happens than the latter.
The question is, how do you get people to vote, especially the ones who have been here for a while and who know what's going on? Are they not voting out of some objection to the system maybe? All questions, not very convenient answers.
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As @aggroed has mentioned, it's likely that some accounts (probably the larger in general) are owned by Steemit staff. Tough to find this information though.
Some accounts will be alts., and as I mentioned to @crokkon, voting on content gives clues here.
All things considered, perhaps most of the active / non-Steemit staff, honorable (errr :) ) accounts are voting for witnesses, and what we have left is a deluge of inactive, bot, test, lost, etc accounts.
More questions raised than answers, again :)