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# Voting Power

**Community members can strategically allocate their voting power based on the importance and impact of each proposal, ensuring their support reflects their priorities and preferences.**

When managing your support, you’ll see 2 key values:

* **Voting power:** Represents your influence within a specific pool. It’s determined by the number of tokens you’ve staked and the pool’s voting system.
* **Voting power used:** Shows how much of your total power is currently allocated to proposals.

### Voting Power & Pool Weight

You can think of them as similar concepts, but they’re not exactly the same.\
Each **pool** always has a total **pool weight** of 100%, which represents the full voting capacity available within a pool.

Your **voting power** is the share of that total weight you personally hold — a percentage of the pool’s 100%. This determines how much influence you have when supporting proposals within that specific pool.

### What You Can Do with Your Voting Power ?

As a community member, you can:

* **Support proposals** you believe in by allocating part of your voting power.
* **Adjust your allocations** at any time to reflect your changing priorities.
* **Diversify your support** across multiple proposals or focus it on the ones you value most.
* **Monitor progress** to see how proposals are to reaching their thresholds.

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