No. That placement in Outlook 2002 or later is exclusive to meeting requests. I always put "VOTE:" as a subject prefix in voting button messages.

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> Is there a way to have the voting buttons visible above the preview pane the
> way meeting request response buttons do so users don't have to open the
> message separately to see them?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Mike