From 8d6ba381b60217763fb76b647fbb813cea9e468d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Danny Salman Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2021 13:38:34 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] resolves #2466 (#2468) --- docs/maintain-guides-how-to-vote-councillor.md | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/maintain-guides-how-to-vote-councillor.md b/docs/maintain-guides-how-to-vote-councillor.md index e8b8d158f9ce..c3513bcdf6b6 100644 --- a/docs/maintain-guides-how-to-vote-councillor.md +++ b/docs/maintain-guides-how-to-vote-councillor.md @@ -4,8 +4,6 @@ title: Voting for Councillors sidebar_label: Voting for Councillors --- - - The council is an elected body of on-chain accounts that are intended to represent the passive stakeholders of Polkadot and/or Kusama. The council has two major tasks in governance: proposing referenda and vetoing dangerous or malicious referenda. For more information on the council, see the @@ -17,6 +15,10 @@ councillors in the elections. Voting for councillors requires you to lock 5 DOT on Polkadot or 0.0083 KSM on Kusama for the duration of your vote. +> NOTE: Voting and staking locks **can overlap** +> A user can use staked funds to vote for Councillors and/or use those funds in referenda). +> A user is only prohibited from transferring these funds to another account. + > Warning: If your balance is vesting, you cannot use unvested tokens for this lock. You will have > to wait until you have at least that many **free** tokens to vote.