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Vote and See the Result

Cast your ballot, follow the tally and see what the DAO decided.

On an open proposal you can vote on, the Your vote box sits at the top of the page, beside the text on a wide screen. It shows your voting power before you vote, and your ballot is signed with your key.

Find What to Vote On

My DAOs starts with Not voted: each DAO with open proposals you can vote on and have not. Those DAOs' cards carry a 3 not voted chip (with their count), and the Not voted tab shows only them.

My DAOs with Not voted at the top and a 3 not voted chip on a card — My DAOs, as a member with three proposals to vote on.

On a DAO page, a strip says how many open proposals are not voted; its Vote button, like the Not voted tab, lists only those. Each of them carries a Vote chip instead of its status.

A DAO page: 3 open proposals not voted, and rows with Vote chips — A DAO page with three proposals waiting on your vote.

These count only open proposals before their deadline that you are entitled to vote on. A proposal made before you joined, or before your units last changed, is not one of them.

Cast Your Vote

Your vote: your voting power, Yes, No and Abstain — The vote box on a decision.

Proposal	How you vote
Decision, or a change to the DAO	Yes or No
Choice, one pick	The option you want
Choice, several picks	Tick the options, then Vote for 2 options (with your count)
Any	Abstain, to take part without taking a side

An abstention counts toward the quorum but not for or against. On a phone, once the box scrolls out of view, Yes, No and Abstain follow along the bottom of the screen. When your ballot lands, the box says what you voted and with what share, for example You voted Yes with 50%.

You cannot start a vote in the last 90 seconds before the deadline, so that a ballot is signed and on the ledger in time. The box then says Voting closes in under 90 seconds. If you joined, or your units changed, after the proposal was made, it says You joined after this vote opened, so you can't vote. or Your units changed after this vote opened, so you can't vote.

Change Your Vote

Where the rule says votes may change, the box offers Change vote until the deadline. Vote again and the new ballot replaces the old one. Such a proposal is counted only after the deadline, so it never settles early.

You voted No with 50%, and Change vote — A proposal whose votes may change.

Everywhere else your first ballot is final, and the box shows only what you voted.

Secret Ballots

On a secret ballot, every member sees the totals and only their own vote. The ballot list starts with Secret ballot. You see only your own vote. The app itself still sees every ballot, because it counts them. See Secret Ballots.

Ballots on a secret ballot: only your own — A secret ballot, as a member who voted sees it.

Read the Tally

The Tally shows yes, no and abstentions as shares of the whole vote: all the units that existed when the proposal was made. The middle figure is what yes must reach.

Tally: 50% yes, 100% to pass, 0% no; 1 voted, 50% of the vote — Two eligible members under Majority of the vote: one yes so far, both needed.

More than half of 2 members is both of them, so the middle figure reads 100% to pass. In a DAO of 5 members the same rule needs 3, and the figure reads 60% to pass. The line under the bar gives how many voted and what share of the vote took part, adds (not yet counted) while the figures are ballots the ledger has not counted, and says so when a quorum is not met.

A choice shows one bar per option. With one pick, the leading option needs what a yes would, and a tie at the top decides nothing. With several picks, every option that reaches the rule is chosen. See Voting and Counting.

The Result

Badge	Means
Open	Voting is open.
Counting	The deadline has passed; the page says Voting closed. Counting the last ballots.
Passed	A decision passed, or a change passed and is not executed yet.
Executed	A change to the DAO passed and is in effect.
Decided	A choice picked one or more options.
Failed	It missed its rule or its quorum, or a choice ended in a tie.

Under the title, the result is said once: Result: Passed., or the options a choice picked.

A decided choice: Result: Tulips. — A choice, decided.

Where the rule settles early, a proposal is decided the moment the outcome can no longer change; otherwise at the deadline. The final count runs about 3 minutes after the deadline, so that ballots signed at the last moment still arrive.

A change to the DAO shows Passed. Executing… until the app has executed it, then the date it was executed. A card spells out what the change did; a large membership change shows how many entries are done so far. If execution keeps failing, the page says Not executed yet: … Retrying. with the reason.

An executed membership change: Result: Passed. Executed, and the Membership card listing the party that joined — An executed Members change, with who joined.

Ballots and Comments

Members see Ballots: who voted, their share, when, and how, searchable by name or party ID. not counted yet (or may change) marks a ballot the ledger has not counted yet. Readers of a public DAO see Only members see ballots. instead.

Under the ballots, members can comment in Markdown. A comment is a signed transaction, paid like any other in the DAO, and stays as written: nobody can edit or delete it. Once voting has ended, Write a comment opens the editor.