On the Create poll Option you will find a form with all the information needed for a poll to be created. There is a small description for each field.

The fields that define a Poll are:

Title : Short Title people will see on the poll Index and when opening the poll.

: Short Title people will see on the poll Index and when opening the poll. Description : The description’s purpose is to explain what the poll is about and to include relevant information. The description field is not required but it is strongly encouraged to include one, so people know exactly what they are voting on.

: The description’s purpose is to explain what the poll is about and to include relevant information. The description field is not required but it is to include one, so people know exactly what they are voting on. Poll Index : The address of the Index Account to send the poll. By default a public one is set.

: The address of the to send the poll. By default a public one is set. Date of ending : The date and time the poll will end and no more votes will be counted.

: The date and time the poll will end and no more votes will be counted. Multiple : you can choose if the vote will be multiple option . In this case vote weights will be split between the different options a voter chooses.

: you can choose if the vote will be . In this case vote between the different options a voter chooses. Type : The type of vote counting (details below).

: The type of vote counting (details below). Options : The options voters will be able to choose from.

: The options voters will be able to choose from. Whitelist: Only used for white list polls, where only votes from the given addresses will be accepted.

When creating a poll the user can specify the way votes will be weighted. On the current version two options are offered:

POI : Proof of Importance is a great tool for weighing the votes on polls, specially those that affect the NEM community . In the voting platform we make it possible to use the importance score, intrinsic to NEM , to weigh votes in a simple way.

: Proof of Importance is a great tool for weighing the votes on polls, specially those that affect the . In the voting platform we make it possible to use the importance score, intrinsic to , to weigh votes in a simple way. White List: On simple polls every vote counts the same. A whitelist is required for this polls since anybody can create as many NEM accounts as they want.

Voting and Viewing results

Polls list

On the See Polls option you can observe a list of all the polls submitted to the current poll Index, Which at the start will be the default Index. If you click on any of the polls the details of the poll will be loaded from the blockchain and displayed. On the bottom there is a button for refreshing the polls on the index.

voting on a poll

If everything is correct (you have voting permissions and you have not previously voted) you can send your vote.

If you are cosignatory of a multisig account, you will see a multisig tab, where you can choose from all your multisig accounts and cast a vote for them, which will appear as a multisig transaction to all the cosignatories.

On the options tab you can find a bar where you can input a NEM address pertaining to a poll or a poll Index to display them. You can also create a new poll Index and see a list of your created poll indexes if you have any.

Results of a poll in the testnet

You can display the results of the poll by going into the results tab. If the poll is ongoing the results are not definitive since they are checked on the current block, and importance scores are likely to change.

If the poll has ended the results are definitive and are counted from historical data. The counting automatically pulls data from a node that has Historical data activated.