Voting Failure

• Failure Nodes Over Blocking Number At INIT Stage
• Failure Nodes Under Blocking Number At INIT Stage
• Failure Of Proposing
• Failure Of SIGN, ACCEPT Stages

Note

blocking number

In voting, to reach a majority for YES, the YES ballots must be over threshold. blocking number is the minimum number to prevent to reach the majority. For example,

• there are 4 total voters,
• threshold for majority is 3,

At this condition, blocking number is 2. Simply to say,

blocking number = <voters> - <threshold> + 1