Validator Spending Reduction - 3 Onchain Options

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(at least 60% of total votes including YES + NO + Abstain

The constitutional threshold for these specific votes are 80% (security changes). See L44 celo-monorepo/packages/protocol/governanceConstitution.js at master · celo-org/celo-monorepo · GitHub.

Also the abstain votes are not factored in to get the final approval percentage. It is simply as @yomfana states:

@yomfana

Once quorum is satisfied, the protocol checks if the proposal has sufficient support based on constitutional thresholds i.e. whether the share of Yes votes is high enough to pass i.e.

Approval = (yes/yes+no) > constitutionalThreshold

If quorum was not achieved, the “yes+no” above includes synthetic “no” votes.

Or here on L215: celo-monorepo/packages/protocol/contracts/governance/Proposals.sol at master · celo-org/celo-monorepo · GitHub