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title: Abstention Voting on OpenGov

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# Abstention Voting on OpenGov

Introducing *abstention* to OpenGov (conviction-voting) that takes the form of a new variant in `AccountVote`.

Abstentions are like `Aye` votes in terms of support but do not affect the approval, thus, allowing participants to support the early termination of voting without affecting its result.

In a way, it's like saying, *"I see it and I do not plan on voting".*

The abstention can be done currently only via the `developer` > `extrinsics` > `convictionvoting` > `vote` with `pollIndex` being Referendum number the and the `Vote` value being a non-zero for `SplitAbstain`.

Please also note that the value is calculated in *u128*. Hence, consider multiplying the value by 1000000000000. 

![](https://i.imgur.com/PBBHvq8.png)
