We’ve been getting lots of questions about how to vote your EOS at launch and beyond. We’ve also been seeing a lot of Block Producers that are either helping to fund a voting portal, or building one themselves.

Having multiple portals that allow EOS holders an opportunity to easily vote is a great thing. Having multiple portals built by the very institutions that are suppose to be independent and most importantly transparent, is not a great thing in our opinion, unless they are honest about their involvement.

We also want to be clear, as we’ve said in recent articles, that any Block Producer that owns a percentage of another Block Producer should be considered colluding with those other Block Producers.

We are asking the community to please ask their Block Producer candidates if they own other Block Producers.

We are also asking the community of Voting Portal Developers, Block Producers and anyone else who contributes to the funding, development, marketing or other contribution of a Voting Portal, to add the disclaimer we are providing below (or one the community can agree on) to the Voting Portal they are helping to build.

“This EOS Voting Portal was paid for, marketed by and/or built by developers who are affiliates of partners with a Block Producer, or who are Block Producers themselves. You should know this because you are entrusting your vote with your chosen Block Producers whose primary responsibility is Transparency. The primary role of a Block Producer does not include funding or building Voting Portals.”

We think this is a fair and reasonable request for the Voting Portals so that Voters know who is behind the portals existence. We understand manipulation is technically unlikely; however, we think in the long run this disclaimer will help benefit those who have contributed because this level of transparency to the voters is exactly what Block Producers should be striving for in our opinions.

We hope the community agrees and can make this level of transparency even better over the coming days.