Voting

Humanity uses a straightforward majority rule voting system with two periods.

In the first two-day voting period, voters may vote yes or no on an applicant. If a majority of votes are cast towards yes, the application enters a two-day veto period in which voters may only vote no. This prevents attacks in which late yes votes swing the result. If you get more yes votes than no votes, your Ethereum address is added to the registry of unique humans. The voting process is shown in the flowchart below:

Voters can participate in many proposals simultaneously with the full weight of their votes, but may only withdraw their voting tokens after all the proposals they participated in have expired. Voters do not lose any voting tokens by voting in the minority on any given proposal.