@valued-customer thank you very much for asking more about voting as a proxy! Setting a proxy is an all or nothing approach meaning the proxy gets every vote. To combine the benefits of a proxy with manual voting, a proxy can be used to decide on the majority of individual votes while adding, subtracting, or replacing some votes. For example, @aggroed is voting for 30 witnesses none of which are for me while I am voting for his witness.

If you wanted to vote for me and effectively keep @aggroed as a proxy, you could remove the proxy and manually set most of the votes @aggroed has set as seen at https://witstats.steemliberator.com/index and find one to replace using the rankings or whether that witness is voting for @aggroed back.