It seems that when I do the bit where I create a new identity in scatter it tries to find the accounts matching the keys on the server, sometimes is says it can't find any accounts, but if you retry a few times, eventually it does.
That's a little bit disconcerting, but eventually I did manage to vote.
What's more disconcerting, is that when I did get the identity added, there's a new identity element available at the top level in scatter, and a little button with a circle icon next to the pen icon, and when I click that it shows the balance against that account. It says "Loading token balances", then says I have 10 EOS tokens. I should have a lot more tokens than that, and I've got no idea why it's saying 10, but it's a worry.
Meanwhile, sites like https://eoscountdown.com/ and https://eosauthority.com/ show a number of tokens against my public key that is what I expect.
What am I not understanding here?
I'm not 100% certain but I think it's the nodes being overloaded and not returning proper responses. That's why when you try different urls in the Networks settings it can lead to better results because those nodes end up being available.
I heard the plan was to improve the eosportal website to allow more intelligently pull the right network url automatically.
Not sure, but another better solution might potentially be if the block producers can provide a load balanced endpoint that has only one url but many different nodes behind it and then routes to the least used one. But I don't really know the details here to be honest, just some educated guesses on my side.
Yea, it shows only 10 EOS for me as well. That's exactly the amount that I have left unstaked in my account which I think was some default setting from the current initial chain state. You can see that on https://eosflare.io
The setting in Scatter to show the balance is very new and experimental and I guess it only shows the unstaked amount so far.
Yes 10 EOS is apparently all SCatter will show because EOS has auto staked the remainder so as to afford your actions on the EOS platform. I dont fully understand but this is what I heard, and I wanted to reassure @andrewdpirate