…undling and announcing votes. Votes are collected in either bundles of the maximum size, 12, or however many are available after a time cutoff.

…he block through the active_block loop instead of ensuring it was confirmed through actual network traffic.

…s unlocked in send().

…he announce loop would continue to announce votes. Instead the test should be built so that it will continue to solicit votes if quorum is not met.

…ect buffer.

…abase transaction to close before re-acquiring the vote_generator lock.

Using boost instead of std thread to match other thread usage.