Sorry to say this but you're factually incorrect. There was no minimum vote amount declared in these rules. However after weeks of complaining and being ignored I began to flag these bets. At that point he made a post in which he claimed it was all a big mistake because a program he had written had not picked up votes of less than 50% (some of mine had been 10%).

From this he has started telling everybody that 50% was the rules all along. It was not.

This, however is a side issue. The real issue is the large amount of irregularities with his behaviour, dishonest payouts, various proxy accounts he seems to use as sock puppets and the lack of any discipline in this important past of Steemit.