# kaal:claim:3799320-023

**Claim.** If a DAO's internal voting mechanism is more centralized and carries legacy voting problems, a higher degree of decentralization in its external legal design will typically be canceled out in the long run.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- DAOs pairing centralized internal voting with a decentralized legal design

**Source quote.**

> if the internal voting mechanism of a DAO is more centralized and afflicted with existing legacy voting issues, a higher degree of decentralization in the external legal design will typically be canceled out in the long run.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *A Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) of DAOs* (2021), Concept, page 16

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, A Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) of DAOs (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3799320

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**Failure mode.** Decentralization cancellation  (family: recentralization-drift)

**Topics.** governance-design, law-and-legal-systems, decentralization

**Keywords.** internal-governance, external-legal-design, decentralization-synergy, voting-mechanism

**Related claims.**

- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3652481-034

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