# Voting Mechanism

## Voting Process

Once a user becomes eligible for voting by depositing liquidity in the designated pools, the voting mechanism begins:

* 5 pools are available for voting.
* Eligible users can cast their vote on up to 5 pools per voting period.
* Votes determine which pools will receive the reward emissions for that month.
* Strategy creators can enlist their strategies among the decided vaults to be voted on after approving their proposal through governance.

## Reward Collection

Users who voted and provided liquidity in selected pools start collecting $oA51 as rewards:

* The emission will be done in epochs and each epoch will consist of 15 days.
* 6769.82 $oA51 emitted per epoch (which means 13,539.64 $oA51 emitted per month) among 5 different strategies. These will be convertible to $A51 tokens at a 50% discount.
* The rewards will be distributed based on the overall users' liquidity share in the A51 strategies and Balancer A51/ETH pool. To maximize your rewards, ensure greater liquidity share in the Balancer pool.
* At the end of each epoch, the rewards will be airdropped to the LP addresses.

## Claim Rewards

Users can view their collected $oA51 tokens in the "Claim Reward" section on the user dashboard, which provides a detailed overview of metrics of earned rewards and current positions, including:

* My BAL-LP token
* My $oA51 holding
* My Claimed $oA51
* My Unallocated votes
* Current voting period
* Current and past voted vaults