i’ve been thinking about this more, and i think what’s actually happening is that the vote is removed, but the observation is not getting reindexed. so we don’t get access to the latest information until the observation is reindexed. this would be similar to what’s being described in: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/life-stage-annotation-not-saving-on-specific-observation/24021/19.
so another workaround would be to attempt to delete the vote and then click on one of the DQA metrics (which would trigger a reindex of the observation). you’ll see that the removal of the vote will occur with the change of the DQA metric.
if i’m understanding you correctly, this is intended behavior. in the annotations, the votes up and down are different from the initial annotation – sort of like in a meeting, a motion and second are separate from the votes for that motion.