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When looking at my total votes in the 'votes' tab (not the summary) on my profile on SO I saw that I had a total of 236 Votes Cast. However when I look at my badge progress of the Civic Duty badge it says that I votes 292 times:

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Is there any logical reason for the count difference?

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    Maybe deleted questions make the difference.
    – qben
    Commented Jun 21, 2013 at 11:07
  • @qben That would indeed be a very logical explanation but it would be great if someone could confirm this.
    – Daanvn
    Commented Jun 21, 2013 at 11:21
  • It is showing "293 Votes Cast" currently.
    – hjpotter92
    Commented Jun 21, 2013 at 11:28
  • @hjpotter92 My badge progress is at 293 now, but on my profile it still says "237 Votes Cast".
    – Daanvn
    Commented Jun 21, 2013 at 11:32
  • I just opened your profile and it states "294 Votes cast"
    – Jehof
    Commented Jun 21, 2013 at 11:59
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    For everyone saying they see the higher number: compare the votes cast in your own profile summary with the votes cast in the votes tab. There should be a difference. (The votes tab is only visible in your own profile.)
    – Ral Zarek
    Commented Jun 21, 2013 at 12:03
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    My summary says 1586 vs 2139 but I see the difference is that the larger figure includes "votes for closure" and "votes for reopen" while the smaller figure is up/down only.
    – Roger Rowland
    Commented Jun 21, 2013 at 12:17
  • @RogerRowland Then compare your upvotes and downvotes: I have 1266 vs. 1232 up and 355 vs. 108 down on meta. I'm pretty sure that is due to deleted posts.
    – Ral Zarek
    Commented Jun 21, 2013 at 12:39
  • @RalZarek yes I can see similar, a much smaller difference though so I guess the big difference on the civic duty badge is due to close/reopen votes cast on the review queue(s).
    – Roger Rowland
    Commented Jun 21, 2013 at 12:55

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As suggested in the comments, the votes tab in your profile does not include votes on since-deleted posts. This is particularly confusing on the delete votes tab, but you can always support the request to change that.

Note that the voting section on the summary tab of your profile does factor in up/down votes on deleted content, so those numbers should generally be consistent with what you see in the badge progress bar.

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