We converted our ideas from another application. We are working to clean them up. When I merge ones that were created prior to the conversion it will not update the number of votes. I would like to ability to change that number (or even better have the system calculate the number) during the merge. This is impacting the ability to see accurate counts for ideas especially during a planning cycle.
The status of this idea was out of date. Since this was requested we have made an update that will consolidate votes and update the vote count when ideas are merged -- including the initial vote count that is added to imported ideas.