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title: VB Proposal - New voting mechanism

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## New voting mechanism

### Scope

New voting mechanism is a proposal from OPS team to modify voting power calculation. It does not contain modifications for eligibility criteria, Fair voting policy or blacklisting routine.

New voting mechanism will apply only to next Congress members election. General voting routines for proposals, setup packages e.t.c does not affected

Full description is available on hackmd - https://hackmd.io/8YBpAi47QN2ceqPLjG68Iw

### Rationale

Previous elections had 1 Human - 1 Vote approach which was vulnerable to Sybill attacks (aquiring of Proof of Personhood was easy)

Previous elections did not reward active community members with additional voting power.

Previous elections did not implement any privacy solution so intermediary results was fully available in the middle of election. This may have caused intermediate results affecting the voting process.

### Short solution description

To prevent Sybill attacks account for we use stake-weighted voting calculated over a snapshot. More detailed Sybill resistance approach outlined in the corresponding section of full description.  

To implement more fair distribution of the voting power throughout the community we implement quadratic weighted voting with threshold.

To incentivize community members to actively participate in the development of the NEAR ecosystem we implement reward system based on transaction history of an account.

### Roadmap

Solution will be developed in March-May of 2024 aiming to finish in the middle of May to start new elections preparation

### **Budget**

39,000 USD which may vary depending on privacy solution design