Originally Posted by Myrdin

Okay this might be a stupid question but - does spending the gathered tickets on your selected girl actually deplete the number you gathered for the Event character ?
As in: I got 200 tickets, and I need 2K for maxed out Event char. Thus at this point 1800 points are left.
I use my 200 tickets for popularity voting. I am back at zero. I need 2000 to get the maxed out event char.

It would make zero sense for it to be like that (heck no one would the spend the tickets to vote of course), but I am throwing the question out here for those who played the DMM version of this quest to answer. Thanks

The game keeps track of your earnt tickets. You can click on the Midpoint Announcement and then on Voting History to keep track of your votes/tickets.