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From what I gather is that votes will have a truer weight based on SP & VP. This I suppose, is intended to garner higher quality posts from content creators in addition to giving a User a more relative clout when voting on a post. If you search HF 19 there are many articles about it from quite a few witnesses.

There is voting power and there are total votes for reputation score. I believe that is the modus operandi

don't forget favoritism ism..