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title: Governance Polls
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description: "A description of governance polling in Maker."
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# Governance Polls

Governance Polls occur on-chain and can be accessed through the Maker Foundation's [Voting Portal](https://vote.makerdao.com/polling).

Polls use [instant run-off](https://ballotpedia.org/Ranked-choice_voting_(RCV)), so you can select multiple options and ranked-choices will be prioritized.

Governance Polls measure the sentiment of MKR voters, and are used to:

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- Determine governance and DAO processes outside the technical layer of the Maker Protocol.

- Form consensus on important community goals and targets.

- Measure sentiment on potential Executive Vote proposals.

- Ratify governance proposals originating from the MakerDAO forum signal threads.

- Determine which values certain system parameters should be set to before those values are then confirmed in an executive vote.

- Ratify risk parameters for new collateral types as presented by Risk Teams.

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