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.. _voting:
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The Voting Process
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The design of the Tezos Node allows the consensus protocol to be
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amended, that is replaced by another set of OCaml files which
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implements the API of a valid protocol.
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In the current protocol the amendment procedure is guided by a voting
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procedure where delegates can propose, select and test a candidate
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protocol before activating it.
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Delegates take part in the amendment procedure with an influence
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proportional to their stake, one roll one vote.
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The procedure consists of four periods, each of 32768 blocks (or
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~three weeks), for a total of approximately three months.
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Other than this page, there is an excellent overview from `Jacob
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Arluck on medium.
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<https://medium.com/tezos/amending-tezos-b77949d97e1e>`_
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Periods
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-------
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The voting procedure works as follows:
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- `Proposal period`: delegates can submit protocol amendment proposals using
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the `proposals` operation. At the end of a proposal period, the proposal with
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most supporters is selected and we move to a testing_vote period.
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If there are no proposals, or a tie between proposals, a new proposal
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period starts. Each delegate can submit a maximum of 20 proposals,
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including duplicates.
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- `Testing_vote period`: delegates can cast one vote to test or not the winning
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proposal using the `ballot` operation.
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At the end of a testing_vote period if participation reaches the quorum
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and the proposal has a super-majority in favor, we proceed to a testing
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period. Otherwise we go back to a proposal period.
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- `Testing period`: a test chain is forked for 48 hours to test a
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correct migration of the context.
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At the end of a testing period we move to a promotion_vote period.
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- `Promotion_vote period`: delegates can cast one vote to promote or not the
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tested proposal using the `ballot` operation.
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At the end of a promotion_vote period if participation reaches the quorum
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and the tested proposal has a super-majority in favor, it is activated as
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the new protocol. Otherwise we go back to a proposal period.
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It is important to note that the stake of each delegated is computed
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at the beginning of each period.
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Super-majority and Quorum
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Both voting periods work in the same way, only the subject of the
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vote differs.
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During a vote a delegate can cast a single Yea, Nay or Pass vote.
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A vote is successful if it has super-majority and the participation
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reaches the current quorum.
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`Super-majority` means the Yeas are more than 8/10 of Yeas+Nays votes.
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The `participation` is the ratio of all received votes, including
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passes, with respect to the number of possible votes. The `quorum`
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starts at 80% and at each vote it is updated using the old quorum and
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the current participation with the following coefficients::
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newQ = oldQ * 8/10 + participation * 2/10
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More details can be found in the file ``amendment.ml``.
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Operations
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There two operations used by the delegates: ``proposals`` and ``ballot``.
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A proposal operation can only be submitted during a proposal period.
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::
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Proposals : {
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source: Signature.Public_key_hash.t ;
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period: Voting_period_repr.t ;
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proposals: Protocol_hash.t list ; }
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Source is the public key hash of the delegate, period is the unique
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identifier of each voting period and proposals is a non-empty list of
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maximum 20 protocol hashes.
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The operation can be submitted more than once but only as long as the
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cumulative length of the proposals lists is less than 20.
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A ballot operation can only be submitted during one of the voting
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periods, and only once per period.
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::
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Ballot : {
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source: Signature.Public_key_hash.t ;
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period: Voting_period_repr.t ;
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proposal: Protocol_hash.t ;
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ballot: Vote_repr.ballot ; }
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Source and period are the same as above, while proposal is the
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currently selected proposal and ballot is one of ``Yea``, ``Nay`` or
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``Pass``.
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The pass vote allows a delegate to not influence a vote but still
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allowing it to reach quorum.
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More details can be found, as for all operations, in
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``operation_repr.ml``. The binary format is described by
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``tezos-client describe unsigned operation``.
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