Cross posted from: https://forums.nxtcrypto.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=530&p=2612#p2612

My thoughts on how to count votes.

Personally I think the most democratic way is 1 Account = 1 Vote, regardless of your wealth (amount of NXT). Sure someone could create multiple accounts to have more votes but since it costs NXT to send NXT to other accounts, you couldn't do this for long without going broke.

Imagine I have 10,000 NXT. I can't create 10,000 accounts. At most I could create 5,000. Since if I send 1NXT to 5,000 accounts it costs me 5,000 NXT in transaction fees just to do so. If I want those NXT all back in one account (to increase ability to forge) then I can create even less accounts since I will incur a transaction fee to send NXT from those dummy accounts back to my main account.

This can actually work well early on since it may help to distribute NXT even more.

Another way to prevent the creation of dummy voting accounts would be to have a rule that NXT must remain in an account for a certain number of blocks before a vote to be counted as a valid voting account. Or say for example if a vote comes up at block 45,000 for example, only accounts that have a balance as of block 45,000 are counted for voting.

I think the coolest part about the voting is that we can use the voting system to tweak the voting system as time goes on. We could come up with all sorts of complex algorithms in the future once we see what the NXT ecosystem looks like.

Any ideas?

Edit: Or maybe even, 1 Account = 1 Vote but it costs 1NXT per account to vote.

For some people it's not a problem to create 100 000 accounts just for voting. Also I hate the idea 1 person - 1 vote.

I was thinking of doing something like that:
1 Nxt - 1 Vote
100 Nxt - 100 Votes
1000 Nxt - 800 Votes
10 000 Nxt -7000 Votes
100 000 Nxt - 60 000 Votes
1 000 000 Nxt - 500 000 Votes
5 000 000 Nxt - 4 000 000 Votes
10 000 000 Nxt - 6 000 000 Votes

Shit dgex down again...

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