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Vote Schema
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Vote
----

A Vote is an endorsement of a Block (identified by a hash) by
a node (identified by a public key).

The outer Vote object contains the details of the vote being made
as well as the signature and identifying information of the node
passing the vote.


Vote.node_pubkey
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

**type:** string

Ed25519 public key identifying the voting node.



Vote.signature
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

**type:** string

Ed25519 signature of the ``vote`` object.


Vote.vote
^^^^^^^^^

**type:** object

Vote details to be signed.





Vote Details
------------

Vote details to be signed.


Vote.previous_block
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

**type:** string

Sha3 identifier of the block that preceeds the block being voted on.
The notion of a "previous" block is subject to vote.



Vote.voting_for_block
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

**type:** string

Sha3 identifier of the block being voted on.



Vote.is_block_valid
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

**type:** boolean

This field is ``true`` if the block was deemed valid by the node.



Vote.invalid_reason
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

**type:** string or null

Reason the block is voted invalid, or ``null``.



Vote.timestamp
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

**type:** string

Unix timestamp that the vote was created by the node, according
to the system time of the node.






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