"What is explicitly not fine and well is punishing people based on the witness that they voted for."

You seem to not understand that voting for witnesses that ran 22.5 was voting to become property of the Chinese Communist Party. People that did that are the enemies of humanity, and probably should be prosecuted for war crimes and hung by the neck until dead if convicted.

Voting isn't some magical kind of speech immune to the consequences of it's content. Voting to execute babies and eat them for breakfast is a crime, not protected because it's a formal mechanism for speech.

It's not a thought. It's an action. Speech isn't thought, but action.

If you say 'Shoot him', you are participating in attempting to kill someone, not thinking about it.