Redoing Luke's fix for character encoding issues in searchVotes.
Redoing Luke's fix for character encoding issues in searchVotes.


Former-commit-id: cff42a2009b0fdbbceed5c1ad2b87e8969638339
JeffreyBLewis/WebVoteView,JeffreyBLewis/WebVoteView,JeffreyBLewis/WebVoteView,JeffreyBLewis/WebVoteView