Up arrow always appear despite we specify a "vote" text or not.

Regards.

This is the problem: when configuring the Plus1 widget in control panel, you can specify a text for both voting and unvoting. The unvoting stuff works fine, but the voting stuff doesn't.

If you don't specify a text for the Vote action, such as "I like it!" or "awesome" or whatever, an arrow up appears in its place.OK, but if you do specify a text, the arrow is still there and there is no text.

I found this is a CSS issue. In the file: "plus1.css" just replace this:

div.plus1-widget .plus1-vote {
  background: url(images/up.png) no-repeat center bottom;
  text-indent: -999em;
}

by this:

div.plus1-widget .plus1-vote {
	background: none;
}

and you're done.