Voting, Delegation and Quorum
Quorum of attention
This quorum is applied in every proposal pool in the system. Proposals that receive upvotes or downvotes from 22% of active governors in a SC, but not less than 10% of upvotes, are immediately conveyed to a Chamber for voting.
Quorum of vote
This quorum is applied in the chambers. A quorum is reached if at least 33% of the Governors vote on a proposal. If 66% of the Governors, within the quorum, vote to approve a proposal, then Vortex will consider it approved. This means that 22% of the governors in the chamber will be the necessary minimum to approve a proposal. Human nodes that do not participate in governance are not counted in reaching a quorum. The voting power of each governor is equal to 1 + the votes of his Delegators.
Any proposal that is pulled out of the proposal pool gets a week to be voted upon in the respective chamber.
Vote delegation and quorum
Cognitocratic vote delegation is one of the most controversial topics laid out in this paper as permittance of vote delegation opens up a pandora's box of power concentration behind an individual cognitocrat. Conditioning here is intertwined with how a system approaches to gather a quorum.
If there is an absolute quorum where all the governing agents are considered during the count then not implementing a vote delegation entails risk of voters apathy - not being able to gather a necessary quorum to make any decision. On the other hand, if it is enabled then it makes the risk of centralization and corruption much higher as it is much easier to affect inert and apathetic voters to centralize around certain individuals. “Delegate and forget”. If there is an active quorum where only active governing members are included into the quorum count then not implementing the vote delegation makes the whole system very elitist as only those cognitocrats who have time and resources to dedicate themselves fully to governance will have the right to vote. In this case, it doesn’t even make sense to enable vote delegation only from active participants as if one is an active governor why delegate your vote in the first place if one is actively governing?
The most interesting case, and the one Humanode is going to utilize, is counting only active governors in the quorum but allowing non-active cognitocracts to delegate their voice to any active cognitocrat. This type of a system tries to balance the elitism of cognitocrats with irrationality of a broader audience as delegation is allowed but only for those who have proven their merit. What is also unique about this delegation is that one can only delegate his voice to a fellow cognitocrat from the same chamber. Thus even delegation of voice becomes specialized.
Veto rights
There should be a Veto system in place to prevent cases where the majority is wrong. This Veto should be temporary or still breakable with several attempts. It should be done so that there is no mechanism to stop the accepted democratic consensus, but slow one down to reconsider.
In Vortex the veto power is distributed among the cognitocrats with the highest Local Cognitocractic Measure (LCM) in their respective chambers. The LCM is described in more detail below. For example, if there are 12 specialized chambers the veto power would be distributed among 12 individuals who have obtained the highest LCM. If 66% + 1 person decides that some proposal should be vetoed, then the proposal will be sent back to vortex for two weeks. The temporary veto can be set twice. If the proposal gets approved for the third time then no veto can be implemented on it anymore.
This Veto mechanism is a necessary tool of deterrence not only in the cases of minority vs majority, but also from direct attacks on a governing system from various vectors.
Voting procedure
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