Yes, but doesn't it only regenerate back at the 10 at 100% power per 24 hour periods. So if you did this 40 times a day for several days you would be using it faster than it regenerates and it would get lower and lower wouldn't it?
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Well, partially true. It will not get back to 100% - that is correct, but it will not keep getting lower and lower. When you are at 25%, a 100% vote only uses 2% of the remaining 25%, so you are using up less voting power too. If you are voting 40x per day, then it will reach an equilibrium at around 25% - where it will refill and you will spend at a rate about equal to keep it around 25%.
I had to read this article 3 times - and I'm a mathematician - to see the key sentence! That however many daily votes you do, you will end up at some average level of voting effectiveness commensurate with your number of votes. At 40 votes per day, your account bounces around between about 15% and 35%, averaging out, as @timcliff says, at about 25%.
One comment mentioned the psychology concern of "losing power". There is a good case there for possibly doing something within the UI to change that perception. On chainBB it tells you to a fair degree of accuracy how many more votes a user can make in order to stay at your current level. I find that useful.
Thanks for the post - useful change of perspective.