I do not understand why this penalty is put as USD amount , instead it should be some fixed amount of Hive.

Exactly! I've got 2,039.126 HP. I can't drop a 2 cent vote. That's just messed up on so many levels. I still vote and drain my VP. At least I own some other tokens like LEO, STEM, BATTLE, PAL etc. They should help the folks out :)

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