# About Open Ballot

{% hint style="info" %} <mark style="color:green;">**Open Ballot is the electronic voting system embodied in our community's governance constitution.**</mark>
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> "Each member has a say in each of the Foundation's acts."&#x20;

The way the members get to have their say is entirely vested in our universal suffrage, with the exception that the members are distributed among project governing committees.&#x20;

{% hint style="info" %} <mark style="color:purple;">a. Open Constitution Governance System is a technical management system that brings characteristics of decentralised autonomy to the network community.</mark>

<mark style="color:purple;">b. Open Ballot is the voting system adopted in the Open Constitution Network.</mark>\
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\ <mark style="color:red;">Note: Open Ballot is presently maintained with community proposals and Council resolutions on the Foundation's Open Decision forums.</mark>\ <mark style="color:red;">All Vote-based decisions must be logged on the Foundation's public ledger.</mark>\
\ <mark style="color:green;">Members are also building consensus in the community for the open ballot in the Open Convention.</mark> \ <mark style="color:green;">Specific types of votes are generally moderated by either the Election Council or Executive or Steering Council members on whether the captured decisions have achieved a qualifying quorum, as per this Open Constitution.</mark>
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**All Foundation members, including individual members affiliated with the Open Constitution Network Tenancy Program, can participate in the Open ballot freely, voluntarily, and in confidence.**

1. Each community member has a single registered vote to decide on an issue listed on the Foundation's Open Ballot (read electoral system). &#x20;
2. Quorum on a vote is always achieved when at least half of the members, organised according to the Ballot distributions below, participate in the vote.

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*<mark style="color:purple;">**How do we manage the Vote using a digital token?**</mark>*

*<mark style="color:purple;">Each vote is assigned a unique yet indivisible token on an Internet-based public ledger.</mark>*&#x20;

*<mark style="color:purple;">Token distribution and supply are variable and directly linked to votes.</mark>* \
*<mark style="color:purple;">Votes are currently pegged at the Global Population of the planet Earth, (excluding human population below the age of 18).</mark>*&#x20;

*<mark style="color:purple;">Community Tokens are used by a member to participate and access the Open Ballot.</mark>*&#x20;

*<mark style="color:purple;">The token holders are uniquely identified with a decentralised identity management system of the Foundation.</mark>*&#x20;

*<mark style="color:purple;">All unclaimed token supply rests on the public network until it is claimed</mark> <mark style="color:purple;"></mark><mark style="color:purple;">**in the future when the token owner gets naturalised as a citizen of the Foundation.**</mark>*

*<mark style="color:purple;">The value of the token is associated with the Foundation's Total Impact Fund's value.</mark>*
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