To date, Zcash has never used voting for governance. It has used polls in the past to gather sentiment, but they were used to inform decisions, not make them. Nothing has changed.
I believe we’ve all been consistent in using the word “poll” in wording and have been clear that these are sentiment-gathering tools, not formal voting.
See the polling thread the ZF’s ZCAP announcement, @aquietinvestor’s title of the coin holder poll, etc.
Here is the difference between the two:
I agree that using the word “vote” can be confusing. But casting a vote in a poll, and holding a vote are two different things.