this code initially assumed that all votes would be present, but we failed to enforce that, so we need to provide a new version that can only be used safely. while we don't use this function in core, a var is required because otherwise we will produce halting blocks during the upgrade process.
this code initially assumed that all votes would be present, but we failed to enforce that, so we need to provide a new version that can only be used safely. while we don't use this function in core, a var is required because otherwise we will produce halting blocks during the upgrade process.