Find the poll id:
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Polls are initialized when the createPoll function is called on the arbitrum polling contract (https://arbiscan.io/address/0x4f4e551b4920a5417F8d4e7f8f099660dAdadcEC). If you look at the transaction list of this contract, you’ll see the recent Create Poll calls
To find the transaction that created the poll you’re looking for, you can search through the above transaction list.
b. You’ll want to verify that the poll meets a few criteria:
- the poll was created by one of governance facilitators’ addresses. Currently, they have three addresses:
0xdc7ee5da5d011bc98cf030968659f3ee92232843and0x8541ccfc6e7eacebd233c6789a0fbf7c708b0e68, and0x777cc2b5ec4c50b5aec0c0d9f8d1b8599ef2a54c - The address that created the poll has not subsequently called the Withdraw Poll function for the given poll id.
c. Click on the transaction hash to pull up the transaction page, then click on Logs:
We can see that the poll id is 958, by looking in Topics next to 2.
Find option id:
- We can also see that the markdown file that describes this poll is https://raw.githubusercontent.com/makerdao/community/master/governance/polls/Decrease the RETH-A Dust Parameter - March 6%2C 2023.md by looking at the url in
Data(see above image) - Pasting this url in our browser, we can view the markdown content and see which option id corresponds to which vote choice here:
c. We can also verify that the poll is an active poll by verifying that the startDate is in the past, and the endDate is in the future. Unix timestamps are used for this, so 1678118400 corresponds to Mon Mar 06 2023 16:00:00 GMT+0000 for example. Use this link to convert unix timestamps.
d. Verify that this poll is not a ranked choice poll, by checking that the the input_format is single-choice. If it is rank-free or choose-free or something else, then you will need to convert your rank of options into the correct format. This guide may be updated in the future to describe how to do that.
Vote!
If you are voting directly from your wallet (not using a delegate contract), visit the write contract tab of the mainnet polling contract: https://etherscan.io/address/0xF9be8F0945acDdeeDaA64DFCA5Fe9629D0CF8E5D#writeContract . If you are using a delegate contract, skip this section and jump to section c.
To vote Yes in the poll that we found in step 1 above, we input 958 (poll id) and 1 (option id that corresponds to Yes) into the vote function like so:
