About Open Ballot

Open Ballot is the electronic voting system embodied in our community's governance constitution.

"Each member has a say in each of the Foundation's acts."

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.

a. Open Constitution Governance System is a technical management system that brings characteristics of decentralised autonomy to the network community.

b. Open Ballot is the voting system adopted in the Open Constitution Network. Note: Open Ballot is presently maintained with community proposals and Council resolutions on the Foundation's Open Decision forums. All Vote-based decisions must be logged on the Foundation's public ledger. Members are also building consensus in the community for the open ballot in the Open Convention. 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.

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).

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.

How do we manage the Vote using a digital token?

Each vote is assigned a unique yet indivisible token on an Internet-based public ledger.

Token distribution and supply are variable and directly linked to votes. Votes are currently pegged at the Global Population of the planet Earth, (excluding human population below the age of 18).

Community Tokens are used by a member to participate and access the Open Ballot.

The token holders are uniquely identified with a decentralised identity management system of the Foundation.

All unclaimed token supply rests on the public network until it is claimed in the future when the token owner gets naturalised as a citizen of the Foundation.

The value of the token is associated with the Foundation's Total Impact Fund's value.