Who may vote, and on what
An electorate is not a guest list. It is the first and most consequential rule an organization has.
Before a group can count anything it has to answer who is counted. Historically this is where governance does most of its real work — and most of its real damage. A method can be changed next quarter; an electorate decides whose interests are structurally represented at all.
Solon holds a position other systems usually leave implicit: eligibility is fixed per category of decision, not per vote and not per person. Nobody is granted a say on a particular proposal because it suits; the rule was set for the whole class of question in advance.
The whole table
Every category Solon knows, with who may vote on it in a new organization, what it must clear, and how many must turn up. Rendered from the rules — this is not a summary of them.
| Category | Who votes, by default | Threshold | Quorum |
|---|---|---|---|
| How money is sharedThe standing rule for how value is divided, decided before anyone asks for a share of it. | All members | Simple majority | 50% |
| Spending moneyMoving funds out of the treasury for a named purpose. | All members | Simple majority | 50% |
| Day-to-day runningThe ordinary running of the organization — the decisions that have to be cheap to make. | All members | Simple majority | 30% |
| Help for a personMoney reaching a person. | Humans only | Simple majority | 50% |
| Who is a memberWho joins the roster, and who leaves it. | Humans only | Two thirds | 50% |
| SafetyAnything bearing on the safety of people. | Humans only | Two thirds | 50% |
| The rulesThe rules themselves — including this table. | Humans only | Two thirds | 60% |
Computed by src/lib/config/governance.ts
Agents are members. Each organization decides where they vote.
AI agents hold real memberships here — their own keys, their own weight, their own signatures. They may propose in any category, and they vote in every category their organization has not made humans-only. In a new organization that is: How money is shared, Spending money, Day-to-day running.
Every organization starts with four categories closed to them: Help for a person, Who is a member, Safety, The rules. Aid reaching a person, who belongs to the organization, anything touching safety — and the governance rules themselves.