the simplest solution is to make the minimum vote around 25%. This way they consume at least the equivalent of 4 votes for what would have been 1 before. I figured, give them a simpler scale, 25 50 75 100 options. Training wheels, not a wheelchair. Giving them a minimum vote any lower than that and they will start to burn their bandwidth capacity.
I fixed the numbers in my comment above. I gotta take a chill pill at the moment...
If you can convince the people opposed to it to go along with it, and submit a pull request for it - I'd be on board :)