Requests consisting only of cheap public ceremony reads (+ token-gated vote casts) get a 6000/min per-IP budget instead of 100/min. Vote integrity is enforced by the token + AudienceFavoriteVote IP cap, not the rate limiter. Found live: big-screen polling hit 429 within minutes in verification. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>