There was an error on the official VoteCoin pool, it tried to send payments to some invalid address, and since that failed, payments were delayed due to that. It is now fixed and all payments were sent properly.
Also, there was an error in dnsseed servers for VoteCoin, basically there was a full-debug-logging enabled on the dnsseed nodes, and the debug log took 100% of hard disk capacity, and the dnsseed nodes died due to that. This caused problems in sync for new users. This has been also fixed, so new users should be able to connect and sync wallet now without any issues.
We are sorry for the troubles, lets hope it won't happen too often
-Tom
great job! now I have 2 connections and wallet started to sync.. thanks to dev and team!