# Formal Voting Phase In the formal voting phase, users will have the opportunity to vote both for or against a proposal. The formal voting phase will last for 7 days. For a proposal to pass the formal voting phase, at least 10% of the total staked SPS in the system must vote (either for or against) the proposal, and of the staked SPS that has voted on the proposal, at least 66.66% must vote "for" it. The "weight" of each vote will be the amount of staked SPS tokens the account has at the time of the vote. The vote weight will not change if the amount of staked SPS in the account changes after the vote has been cast even if the formal voting phase is still active. Users may change, remove, or recast their vote at any time while the formal voting phase is active, so if a user has voted on a proposal and then gets more staked SPS in their account they can remove their vote and cast a new vote to increase their vote weight. Each Hive blockchain account can only cast one vote for each proposal. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://sps.splinterlands.com/in-game-governance/formal-voting-phase.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.