# kaal:claim:5254152-032

**Claim.** Subjecting every community vote to review by a council that is not democratically elected defeats the governance value of community voting, as scored for Goldfinch DAO with a governance score of 2.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** evidenced

**Holds when.**

- DAOs where a non elected council holds final say over community votes

**Source quote.**

> involves all community votes being reviewed by the council, which is not democratically elected (G: 2).

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *DAO Market Meta Analysis 2024* (2024), APPENDIX A: DAO Dataset, Goldfinch DAO, page 41

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, DAO Market Meta Analysis 2024 (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5254152

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `bb2052d809a4615f0f3e2526ba6416293c40d00260149ba4fe6f38addf052796` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202024%20-%20DAO%20Market%20Meta%20Analysis%202024.pdf

**Failure mode.** unelected council veto  (family: recentralization-drift)

**Topics.** governance-design, dao

**Keywords.** council-veto, dao-governance, goldfinch, democratic-legitimacy

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