The public Referenda Chamber is one of the three bodies alongside the Council and the Technical Committee governing the Integritee network. Public referenda can be proposed and voted by any token holder with a bond. Every voting period, one proposal with the most support (# of seconds) will be moved to the referenda table for public voting. Voters who are willing to lock up tokens for a greater duration of time can have their votes amplified. This is conceptually equivalent to Polkadot.
A referendum consists of some action that you want to propose. If voted in by token holders, then the action will be enacted on-chain automatically. You are required to bond some tokens to propose an action. Once a proposal is submitted, it cannot be cancelled.
A new proposal can be formed in the Polkadot-js/apps [Democracy](https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fintegritee-kusama.api.onfinality.io%2Fpublic-ws#/democracy) tab. The action, such as 'force transfer balance from account A to account B', is encoded in a preimage, and the hash of the action is called preimage hash.
Since the preimage can be quite large (hence costly to submit), you can submit a Proposal first which includes the preimage hash only, and submit the preimage (or have someone else submit it for you) later but before voting completes.
By clicking on the Submit preimage button, then fill in the action you want to propose, copy and note down the preimage hash 0xf7b547b996c77dd7ac16685dbf47bf34eb9c6643b8e94d7d2e16db400c0c556a. Once you noted down the hash, you can now cancel the prompt.
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Submit a proposal by clicking on the Submit a proposal button, and pasting in the preimage hash to submit it. Then the proposal will appear in the proposal table.
Before voting of your proposal completes, you will need to submit the actual preimage. Otherwise, it cannot be enacted on-chain. You can repeat the ‘Submit a preimage’ process as previously mentioned, and click the ‘Submit preimage’ button to send the transaction.
Once a proposal has been promoted to a referendum, it must collect sufficient votes to be enacted. Voting on a referendum requires bonding of tokens with a conviction of choice. High conviction means the tokens will be bonded and therefore locked for a longer time, but in turn we vote has more weight.
For more details, see the [Voting on a referendum](https://wiki.polkadot.network/docs/learn-governance#voting-on-a-referendum)
The active referenda are found in the [Democracy](https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Fintegritee-kusama.api.onfinality.io%2Fpublic-ws#/democracy) tab of Polkadot-js/apps.
Todo: Enter print screen when we have a new referendum.