Awarding merits for political reasons, this is totally partiality while judging peoples here.
The evidence was pretty clear:
You need 10 earned merits to vote right?
I can provide you with that to be eligible for voting. Not many but some of the supportive and abused, Jr.member and newbies can vote because of my help which is an honour for me.
Giving merit to a political post that's worth reading is okay, but (as a merit source) giving merit for voting rights is abuse.
Yet more ambiguous rules that can be selectively enforced... this is looking less and less like a hands off decentralized system, and more and more like a system designed to give the appearance of decentralization.