While a vote is open, every card the tab's board shows carries a small − 0 + counter in its corner.
Spending and taking back
Press + to add one of your dots and − to take one back. Stacking several dots on one card is allowed, each counting separately, unless the vote was started with One each under Dots per item: then each of your dots must go on a different card. For an Editor, the Vote button in the bottom-right cluster keeps count: its badge shows how many dots you have left, and the Vote panel above it says so in words, like "2 of 3 dots left".
The counter starts at zero, so you can always see which cards are in play and how many dots each has. − greys out when none of the dots on it are yours, and + once your budget is spent (or, under One each, once you have a dot on that card), rather than disappearing, so the buttons stay where your pointer expects them.
The rest of the card keeps working during a vote: click it to open its panel, or drag it to another column. Once the vote ends the buttons go and the counter becomes a plain tally, since at that point it is a result to read rather than something to change.
What can take a dot
The cards take the dots. The board itself takes none, so you can still work the board during the vote. A card shown on two boards is one card, with one count. A card face down on a board that hides writing takes no dots until it is revealed.
When the host ends the vote, each card keeps the dots it gathered as its Votes, which the card's ▲ count and a board's Top Voted widget read afterwards.
Casting needs an Editor or Participant role: someone on a Viewer share link sees the tallies but can't add a dot.
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