# This proposal:

- Changes the default voting threshold from negative to positive turnout bias. That means with low voter participation, we need overwhelming yay votes for a referendum to pass. With the negative turnout bias, we need to potentially motivate a lot of people to vote down a malicious referendum. With positive turnout bias, it’s sufficient to have less voters at a low quorum to reject a referendum. ([GitHub issue](https://github.com/interlay/interbtc/issues/942)) 
- Requires preimage submission before proposals can be made. This prevents proposals/referenda being voted on without actually knowing what the proposal is encoding. ([GitHub issue](https://github.com/interlay/interbtc/issues/951))

For more details, please see the following:

https://github.com/interlay/interbtc/releases/tag/1.22.0
https://github.com/interlay/interbtc/compare/1.21.10...1.22.0

The latest compatible clients release for this version is v1.20.0:

https://github.com/interlay/interbtc-clients/releases/tag/1.20.0


Interlay has proposed changes to the way referenda are passed in their system. They want to change the default voting threshold from negative to positive turnout bias. This means that with low voter participation, they need overwhelming yay votes for a referendum to pass. They also want to require preimage submission before proposals can be made. This prevents proposals/referenda being voted on without actually knowing what the proposal is encoding. The latest compatible clients release for this version is v1.20.0. For more details, please see the provided GitHub links.

Upgrade to runtime 1.22.0: Governance Improvements

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