Casting Your Vote

Double check your option ranks

Before you cast your vote, this is a good time to do one final look over to make sure you've ranked the options and child options in alignment with your true preferences.

If you forgot how to view the child options check out the dedicated navigation page.

Starting the voting process

Once you're happy with your option ranks then it's time to cast your ballot so your voice can be included in the results. Click the cast vote button shown in the image below.

Troubleshooting: Help! I don't see the cast vote button!?

If the "Cast Vote" button is not available, you might not have the correct voting tokens this MetaPoll requires to vote. If you'd still like to vote, you'll need to check which tokens are required and acquire them, or log into a different account that has the required tokens.

This is what a MetaPoll looks like if you don't have enough tokens to vote.

If you see this screen, you're in what's called "view only mode", you can explore the options and rank them but you won't be able to vote. You can check which tokens are needed to vote.

Signing your ballot

After you click "Cast Vote" your wallet should open a window giving you a request to cryptographically sign your ballot with your signing key.

Signing your ballot will not cost any gas.

After you successfully sign the ballot, you should be taken to the Vote History tab where you can see the ballot you just cast and all other previous ballots you've cast on this MetaPoll.

Since we do not have access to your signing key, we cannot produce a valid ballot coming from your account, only your account can produce valid votes. This is one of the ways we stop fraud from happening in MetaPoll.

Troubleshooting: I clicked "sign" but nothing happened?

This usually happens if you waited too long (timeout), or if there was a network error. The best option is to click the "cast vote" button another time and try again.

If repeated attempts still don't work, check that you didn't lose connection to the internet.

Congratulations!!! 🙌

You know how to vote in MetaPoll! 🥳 Your vote continues to work for you day ☀️ and night 🌙 automatically signaling your preferences into new snapshots.

To ensure dead people 💀 aren't still signaling their preferences from the grave 🪦, votes start to decay after 400 days. To keep your vote at full strength, you'll need to come back and refresh your vote once a year ish.

Change your mind?

What about if tomorrow you wake up and realize you made a horrible mistake with your rankings? No worries! You can change your vote whenever you want 24/7 and your new vote will become the new "active voter signal" being cast into snapshots.

To explore what voting history looks like, let's cover that next.