Originally Posted by kokonutz

But that can happen when the voting is done in the private forum too. The vote results and roll call are announced after 2 weeks or all TB members vote. So if I am a late voter in the private forum, I might vote yes just to not appear to be the odd man out once the results are posted.

So the only difference is, if a TB member voted late you could watch it happen live and draw your own conclusion from that. It's more information for posters.