This is my explanation why the layout works as intended and right aligned was an intentional and logical choice. I also think the capital V works against it, but for a different reason than where the sentence starts.

Having the rainbow in the top left area sets the reader up to start by thinking of rainbows, which makes the punchline hit a little harder. The capital V is probably there to add stress to the word and fill in the white space, plus it has the curl that works well with the layout. But that is only necessary visually because of the shitty font they chose, and it stands out as a sore thumb in the middle of the sentence even if they had started it with a capital letter. But if they used thenlower case v the word voted would look really weird.

If they used a different font and left it all lower case it would be perfect.