Tactical Voting needed. Call for guidance.

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Dear Steemians.

Advice/guidance required please.

When this criminal action took place by Justin Sun, bribing some exchanges to illegally lock in and vote with their customers STEEM, i stormed twitter along with many others. Once i heard binance had removed their votes and there was a chance to get the old real witness back in power, i decided to vote tactically. Basically i removed my votes from all the witness with low witness voting power (MV) who i had previously chosen based on my feeling having previously read their witness posts (sorry guys, I will review my votes again once we have hard-forked and changed the governance so this cannot happen again), and voted instead for the witnesses who had the highest votes, so therefore more chance of getting back into the top 20 witnesses. Basically i voted for all the witnesses (not disabled) who were immediately below the fake witnesses running 22.5.

I review this at least twice a day to see if i need to make adjustments.

Now i see that i have voted for 6 of the top 7 real witnesses and am wondering if it is safe for me to remove my votes from some or all of them, without losing their places in the top 7, and thereby be able to vote for more witnesses who are immediately below the fake witness running 22.5.

I caution anyone reading this not to attempt to do this until more knowledgeable advice is received, perhaps from @aggroed @blocktrades @good-karma or any other witnesses or other Steemians who understand the voting system better than i.

I have 37,000 effective SP but i think it's the amount of MVests i have (whatever they are) which affect the power of my vote to the witnesses. I've seen this somewhere before i thought on Steemworld but now can't see where to find the info or interpret it. So, i would need to be sure i would not reduce top witnesses MV by too much for them to lose their place before unvoting and revoting elsewhere.

I also realise that if this way of voting tactically was done indiscriminately, without co-ordination/advice by perhaps a small team of real witnesses, then it could definitely have negative effects.

So, i ask, can anyone co-ordinate us real Steemians on how to best vote tactically. @roelandp @yabapmatt @anyx @someguy123 @ausbitbank @themarkymark @alchemage perhaps?