Vote

• Make sure you have activated your orchestrator
• Make sure your orchestrator is running

Orchestrators can use livepeer_cli to vote in governance polls without exporting their keys from the machine that their orchestrator node is running on.

Refer to this section for more information on governance.

1. Find the contract address for the poll in the explorer page for the poll.

   

   The poll page will include the following box:

   

   Click the "Follow the instructions" link to display the instructions for voting with livepeer_cli:

   

   Make note of the poll contract address which will be used later.

2. Run livepeer_cli

3. Enter the number corresponding to the Vote on a poll option

4. Enter the contract address from the instructions from the first step:

   Enter the contract address for the poll you want to vote on - >
   

   You will be prompted with the voting options:

   Identifier  Voting Options
   0       Yes
   1       No
   

5. Choose and confirm the option you want to vote for:

   Enter the ID of the option you want to vote for - > 0
   Are you sure you want to vote "Yes" ? (y/n) - > y
   
   success
   

6. Wait for the transaction to confirm. You should observe your node submitting the vote transaction:

   I0422 03:30:44.191809   43457 backend.go:96]
   ******************************Eth Transaction******************************
   
   Invoking transaction: "vote". Inputs: "_choiceID: 0"  Hash: "0xf6957c190f1f16fc2ca4a93846903eb435c5e08fa7f6f40b6e159aab6d74905f".
   
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   Once the vote transaction is confirmed you will be able to see your vote reflected in the explorer poll page.