Looking at what done for this question, http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions reports 4 votes, but the question actually got 6 votes: 5 up-votes, and 1 down-vote.

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4 is really the score of the question: the difference between the number of up-votes, and the number of down-votes. _Votes_ for me means the number of votes, not the score a post has.

_Score_ should be an understood word, on Stack Exchange, as it is already used in the description of some badges, such as [Convention][3] ("*10 posts with a score of 2 on meta*"), or [Disciplined][4] ("*Deleted own post with score of 3 or higher*"). I would not say it is a word that Stack Exchange users don't see in other places on Stack Exchange. 





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  [3]: http://stackoverflow.com/badges/901/convention
  [4]: http://stackoverflow.com/badges/37/disciplined