The 35,211 vote cap is incorrect because it's 3% of the wrong figure.
According to this, the total number of uncapped votes was 4,877,684.
So the 3% cap was 146,330 votes, and only the first nine on your list would have been affected by it.
However, the capped vote total (1,173,706) and the number of participating voters (267) tell us that no more than five of the big registrars actually voted.
I do however agree on one thing: Your votes do matter. Only if you do not vote, things like Trump or Brexit can happen!