* checks for authorized voter early on in the vote-listener pipeline (#22169)
Before votes are verified that they are signed by the authorized voter,
they might be dropped in verified-vote-packets code. If there are
enough many spam votes from unauthorized voters, this may potentially
drop valid votes but keep the false ones.
https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/blob/57986f982/core/src/verified_vote_packets.rs#L165-L168
(cherry picked from commit c0c6038654
)
# Conflicts:
# core/src/cluster_info_vote_listener.rs
* removes backport merge conflicts
Co-authored-by: behzad nouri <behzadnouri@gmail.com>