I’ve just tried for a repro on my test site, and I couldn’t manage one. Moving a topic from a voting category to a non-voting category gave my test user their vote back.
Just to check I’m doing it right:
- Enable topic voting in a category
- Use test user to vote on a topic
- As admin, recatgorise the topic to a non-voting category
- As test user, vote on another topic and see how many votes you have left in the info in the pop up