The existing general governance voting framework, while robust, requires careful adaptation to facilitate the election of the xGov council. This new task in fact presents a distinct challenge: the selection of 11 counselors from an initial pool of 22 candidates. Unlike previous voting instances wher…

What’s being done to ensure the 454 million (and growing) algo in Reti pools can vote? Reti has been live since January and was in development far beyond that (with information about its contracts given to governance members). Is governance going to use a snapshot to allow reti pools to vote (or b…

Brought up here as well: [image] GP13 Governance Measures Governance Measures I had discussions w/ xgov people about this many months ago and at Decipher - and made it very clear that staking contracts can NOT be the ones pushing transactions for xgov. I was told this was…

I believe that the best practice for this governance vote is to cast a Yes vote for candidates one strongly supports, Abstain for candidates one does not know well, and No for candidates one strongly wishes to reject. For example, those who vote in this way can be considered “conscientious voters.” …

Thank you for the transparency. This is a great improvement to the voting system and addresses the existing challenges.

I think the choice of 3-option range voting system (Yes/Abstain/No) is an excellent and practical approach. From what I’ve observed in various elections, voters often have strong positive or negative feelings about specific candidates while remaining indifferent to others. This voting system is per…

xGov Council Election: Voting Mechanism

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