# RxC Voice Test

### TLDR;
RxC Voice is an app created by radical exchange for decentralized decision making. It leverages Pol.is to capture sentiment for proposed actions. It is a four part process. The first part of the process is delegate distribution, where a group of original delegates, that best represent the issue, have votes they can delegate. They may also distribute votes to anybody they like. All delegates then enter into a period when they enter comments and solutions for a proposed action. Delegates are also able to agree or disagree with comments during this time. At the completion, a report is produced from the collected data. From this a ballot is created and a quadratic vote occurs.

Also note: This is app requires email to login so many might stop reading here. I also talk about other options so hang tight.

### What is RxC Voice
RadicalxChange's platform for collective decision making

### Are there other options out there?
Yes.
As far as voting goes, there are a number of other option for quadratic voting. 2 of them are exactly the same. One is from RadicalxChange themselves and the other is from gitcoin.

* [RxC QV](https://quadraticvote.radicalxchange.org/)
* [Git Coin QV](https://quadraticvote.co/)

These are both great tools but does not offer anything to help create proposals. For the most part, that should be fine.
The follwing are screenshots for setting up a vote with these tools. They should give a pretty good idea.


There are also strategies available for quadratic voting with snapshot as well. This may also require a dev to write scripts. Given this particular org, that may not be as much a problem as for others, however it still requires an administrator to actually create the vote. The gitcoin and RxC voteing apps are both easy to use and coulc be used to quickly create a vote.
Tokenlog is another place I've seen QV used but I have only used it once and have not researched it yet.

### What is Quadratic Voting?

From [https://www.radicalxchange.org/concepts/plural-voting/](https://www.radicalxchange.org/concepts/plural-voting/):
> Plural Voting (also known as Quadratic Voting or QV) is a redesigned voting method reflecting the intensity of people’s preferences in collective decisions. It greatly mitigates tyranny-of-the-majority and factional control problems.
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> Voters receive budgets of “voice credits,” which they allocate to different questions on the ballot to signal the intensity of their conviction. Their voice credits convert to “counted votes” according to their square root. So if you put one voice credit on an issue, that is one vote; four credits are two votes; nine credits are three votes, and so on.

Quadratic Funding from [https://qf.gitcoin.co/?grant=&grant=&grant=&grant=&match=1000](https://qf.gitcoin.co/?grant=&grant=&grant=&grant=&match=1000)

### Hypothesis

Often times there is a need to offer peolple a variety of options while making a decision. Quadratic voting is a voting system meant to surface the desires of a community when faced with multiple options.
Currently warcamp does not have any such mechanisms. Decisions have to be boiled down to a yes or no option if the proposal is being places on chain with the DAO.
Most of the time the boiling down of options occurs at the circle level. In the case of RxC voice, that would equate to the original delegates. Circles would distribute voice credits to other people they feel are interested in the issue. Most likely it could go out to warcamp.

### Sample Use Cases
Over the last few weeks there have been a number of times when I thought that quadratic voting could be used by the DAO. I would like to highlight a few of them and explain my reasoning behind why I think RxC voice and or some other QV would be beneficial.

#### DAO of The Week

RxC Voice could collect the inputs from the polis or data could be collected in other methods. The ballot would consist of a list of DAOs that could be covered in the article and warcamp members (or anyone tbh) could distribute votes as they please and may the quadratically best win their shot. In truth a conviction voting system would work even better in this circumstance but I haven't quite figured out how to do that yet.

#### HAUS Party Topics

Very similiar reasoning and use as DAO of the Week

#### Compensation Discussions

Collecting group opinions on how to approach compensation, to again, create a ballot of options to be voted on quadratically. There could also be some use case for voting on compensation levels for an individual, perhaps using polis to collect data for ballot creation.

#### Sustainability

Again, polis can be used to collect input for sustainability solutions, creating a ballot with a number of options and a QV vote.
This topic is being discussed in another DAO I am part of. In that case meetings have occured already and a set of viable options are now available. In that particular case, the polis stage is not required as the ballot is already prepared. In this case, using the gitcoin QV vote tool may be a simpler and effective tool.

### The Three Stages of RxC Voice

* Delegation Stage
* Initial Delegates are distributed an equal number of votes.
* Delegates may distribute votes to anybody they wish.
* Delegated credits are matched quadratically creating the potential for an expanding set of delegates.
* Deliberation Stage
* Delegates participate in a Pol.is conversation.
* This consists of delegates entering comments, proposing or commenting on strategic priorities that may end up on a final ballot.
* Delegates may also agree or disagree with other comments
* At the end of the deliberation stage a statistical report is generated from Pol.is which would surface the comments with the highest level of consensus.
* Results are then translated into the ballot
* Voting
* All delegates cast their votes, which are calculated quadratically.
* One option is ballot approval, so usiers may cast a strong portion of votes towards a poor ballot and that it should not be voted on.

### Setting up a new event:

Most of it is self explanatory. Unfortunaltely it uses email address which loses most of the audience.....now.

You then set how many voice credits (votes) a person has and you may also allow a person to transfer anynumber of their voice credits to another person.

The next choice is about quadratic funding and wheather or not credit transfers are matched quadratically. Essentially increasing the power of delegated votes.

The rest is about how long each timeframe is for, the three stages: delegation, deliberation and voting.

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### Homepage after creating an event


### Delegation Screen


### Deliberation Screen


Voice Results


## Creating a Ballot


## Ballot Ratification



### Election Results



### Conclusion

I think it is a great app. The email login makes it a no go for many, so that would make this difficult to implment. The gitcoin app or snapshot maybe preferable for most cases. I do like the slightly more detailed data outputs but am unsure if that outweighs having to use email.

I did not get a chance to talk to myself enough to get enough relevant data on Pol.is or the type of report it produces. In order to do that any justice a team of willing soldiers might be needed to test it and go through the process of creating a ballot.

So even though there are other ways of "creating a ballot" and other ways of creating quadratic votes. RxC Voice has created a pretty good package for creating a decentralized process of decision making. I applaud it for that. It is also open source, so if someone wanted to they could probably fork it and make it more web3. If nothing else, if not the votes at least the results can be ratified and placed on chain.