Votes
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Votes
People registered in the [OpenOffice.org Issue Tracker] can add up to two votes for each issue. See QA Metrics for a list of open issues with lots of votes.
Does voting really work?
To gather empirical data whether voting has a worthwhile effect, here is data gathered about voting. For each release, there are the top, open issues compared to the issues solved by the release.