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Uh... how? Shouldn't people with less than 150 rep be unable to vote? But they appear on the Constituent list.

Waiting to hear whether these are votes - or if they're only getting the badge without voting.

A few of these were our sock-puppety friend - and they've been cleaned up. But still.

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    \$\begingroup\$ Hmm, I think I have more than 21 rep :) I guess Byte56 is a common name. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Jun 18, 2013 at 15:29

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Those users had more than 150 reputation at some point, and lost it again when some of their posts where removed. That is the reason they were able to vote.

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    \$\begingroup\$ Beat me to it. That's it exactly. Many of these were around the ~300 level prior to deleting their positively scored posts over time. It's tedious, but I'm going through it now. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Jun 18, 2013 at 10:46
  • \$\begingroup\$ Makes sense. To be fair: They appeared from the outside to have naturally low rep - because the evidence of them ever having been upvoted was removed. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Jun 18, 2013 at 11:10
  • \$\begingroup\$ @TimPost Do their votes get removed when they drop below 150 rep after voting? \$\endgroup\$ Commented Jun 18, 2013 at 21:19
  • \$\begingroup\$ @NathanReed No, but account removal does remove them (which is what I did). \$\endgroup\$ Commented Jun 20, 2013 at 4:19

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