Introduction

The current social vote corresponds to the Election Standards guidelines section of the Code of Conduct draft. The presented options include the adoption of Weighted voting as a standard for Security Council elections as well as the option of ratification for Shielded Voting for all proposals (Social CGP 12) or only for Elections.

The voting options are then:

1. Weighted Voting for SC + Shielded voting for Elections only

2. Weighted Voting for SC + Shielded voting for Every proposal

3. Weighted Voting for SC

4. Against

5. Abstain

If approved, the selected option will then be included in the final Code of Conduct draft which will be then submitted to a final vote.

Abstract

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Motivation

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Rationale

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Specification

The final wording of the Conduct of Conduct draft shall include the outcome of the present vote as well as the following regarding process violations:

A few months ago DAOplomats team posted a Social EGP to gauge the DAO’s stance on Shielded voting. The results indicated that a slight majority of delegates favored the use of Shielded voting as the default for every proposal. Since the vote was a few months ago, this should be reviewed again. We propose giving the DAO the option to vote on whether to implement Shielded Voting for all votes or Only for Elections, as has been done in other DAOs.

Since shielded voting keeps a voter’s position private, monitoring for breaches of the responsible voting policy will be conducted post-election. This responsibility will fall primarily on the proposal author or individual/entity managing the election process, but as part of a delegate’s responsibility to uphold the code of conduct, anyone can bring a violation forward.

Discovered violations of the responsible voting policy by a delegate participating in an election will result in immediate disqualification from the application process along with the delegate's votes being retroactively removed from the election results. While voters who supported a disqualified candidate may wish to recast their votes for another candidate, we concluded that rerunning the election was not advisable and rather it is the voter's responsibility to support an ethical candidate that abides by Everclear DAO's standards. Lastly, suspected collusion will be investigated by the Everclear Foundation and also be grounds for disqualification from an elected position. Contributors who suspect collusion should message the Everclear Foundation team privately to notify them of the situation.

In order to align with Security Council elections, weighted voting as opposed to approval voting will be the official default voting type for elections. Proposal authors still retain the optionality to justify why an election should not be weighted voting. Elections that lack justification but are posted as non-weighted voting should be considered void and either restarted immediately or pushed for later.