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Voting power on Hive is the percentage of voting power left on a basis of 100.
Each day one's voting power recharges 20%. Thus, an account that drains its VP to 0 will recharge in 5 days.
With each vote, the VP is decreased by the associated amount. The amount of voting power is what is left, for example, 80%.
This is different from voting weight.