# On-Chain Governance

## Governance Polls

Governance Polls occur on-chain and can be accessed through the BakerDAO Foundation's **Voting Portal**.

Polls use [instant run-off](https://ballotpedia.org/Ranked-choice_voting_\(RCV\)), so you can select multiple options and ranked-choices will be prioritized.

Governance Polls measure the sentiment of BKR voters, and are used to:

* Determine governance and DAO processes outside the technical layer of the BakerDAO Protocol.
* Form consensus on important community goals and targets.
* Measure sentiment on potential Executive Vote proposals.
* Ratify governance proposals originating from the BakerDAO forum signal threads.
* Determine which values certain system parameters should be set to before those values are then confirmed in an executive vote.
* Ratify risk parameters for new collateral types as presented by Risk Teams.

## Executive Votes

Executive Votes occur on-chain and can be accessed through the Maker Foundation's **Voting Portal.**

Executive Votes "execute" technical changes to the Maker Protocol. When active, each Executive Vote has a proposed set of changes being made on the BakerDAO Protocol's smart-contracts.

Unlike the other types of votes, Executive Votes use a 'Continuous Approval Voting' model.

Executive Votes can be used to:

* Add or remove collateral types.
* Add or remove Vault types.
* Adjust global system parameters.
* Adjust Vault-specific parameters.
* Replace modular smart contracts.

Anyone can create an on-chain Executive Vote using the BakerDAO governance contracts, however, there is no non-technical UI available to do this.

Users can create proposals, also known as "**Slates,**" through this **experimental portal**, or by interacting directly with the smart contracts.


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