# How to submit a vote as an SPO for Governance Actions
The following guide will walk you through how to submit a vote as an SPO for a Governance Action.
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Credits to [Earn Coin Pool](https://earncoinpool.com/) for documenting the procedure.
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## Step 1 - Copy Governance Action ID
You will probably use resources like gov.tools, adastat.net or temp.vote to view Governance Actions and read about them. Once you are ready to vote on one of those actions as an SPO, you can copy the Governance id
In this example we copied Governance Action ID:
```
15f82a365bdee483a4b03873a40d3829cc88c048ff3703e11bd01dd9e035c916#0
```
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You must use the Legacy Governance Action ID (CIP-105)
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💡TIP:\
Optionally you can run governance state query with some `jq` filters to get information on the governance actions directly from the ledger. For this example, you can run:
`cardano-cli conway query gov-state --mainnet |`\
`jq -r --arg govActionId "15f82a365bdee483a4b03873a40d3829cc88c048ff3703e11bd01dd9e035c916" '.proposals | to_entries[] | select(.value.actionId.txId | contains($govActionId)) | .value'`
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## Step 2 - Vote with SPO Key Air Gapped Machine
⚠️ON AIR GAPPED MACHINE
With the Governance Action ID noted and copied move to your Air Gapped Machine.
First unlock your cold keys if locked
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Please note we keep our keys in the $HOME/cold-keys folder for this example, please change path as needed
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```
chmod u+rwx $HOME/cold-keys
```
Next vote by running the following command, but NOTE in this example we vote "YES" you can vote `--yes`, `--no`, `--abstain`
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Under `--governance-action-tx-id` insert your id from the [above step](#step-1-copy-governance-action-id). Note #0 at the end. Remove the "#0" and the "0" is what goes in the next line: `--governance-action-index`\
\ 15f82a365bdee483a4b03873a40d3829cc88c048ff3703e11bd01dd9e035c916#0
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```
cd $NODE_HOME
cardano-cli conway governance vote create \
--yes \
--governance-action-tx-id "15f82a365bdee483a4b03873a40d3829cc88c048ff3703e11bd01dd9e035c916" \
--governance-action-index "0" \
--cold-verification-key-file $HOME/cold-keys/node.vkey \
--out-file voted
```
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Above we named the output file "voted" best practices might be to name it the governance action id
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## Step 3 - Copy voted file to Relay
Now we will take the "voted" file and copy to a warm machine to build the transaction. In this sample we will copy all our files to `$NODE_HOME` directory.
## Step 4 - Find UTxO and change tx-in
We will find a UTxO (preferably with only ADA) to use to submit the transaction. Assuming you have a payment.addr file, run the following command. Otherwise swap `$(cat payment.addr)` with your payment address
```
cd $NODE_HOME
cardano-cli conway query utxo \
--address $(cat payment.addr) \
--mainnet
```
## Step 5 - Build Transaction with the new UTxO
Replace utxo on the `--tx-in` line with your selected utxo. Also if you don't have payment.addr file, swap `$(cat payment.addr)` with your payment address in the `--change-address` line
```
cd $NODE_HOME
cardano-cli conway transaction build \
--mainnet \
--tx-in ec8c53495d26989a924f01d36a73f82952d4efac79b8ed534aca99fc111d9e5d#0 \
--change-address $(cat payment.addr) \
--vote-file voted \
--witness-override 2 \
--out-file vote-tx.raw
```
## Step 6 - Copy vote-tx.raw file to Air Gapped Machine
Copy your vote-tx.raw file over to you air gapped machine to sign. In this sample we will copy all our files to `$NODE_HOME` directory.
## Step 7 - Sign with SPO Cold Key
⚠️ON AIR GAPPED MACHINE
```
cd $NODE_HOME
cardano-cli conway transaction sign \
--tx-body-file vote-tx.raw \
--signing-key-file $HOME/cold-keys/node.skey \
--signing-key-file payment.skey \
--out-file vote-tx.signed
```
Re-lock your cold keys if you lock them
```
chmod a-rwx $HOME/cold-keys
```
## Step 8 - Copy vote-tx.signed file to Relay
Copy the "vote-tx.signed" file to a warm machine to submit the transaction. In this sample we will copy all our files to `$NODE_HOME` directory
## Step 9 - Submit the Transaction
```
cd $NODE_HOME
cardano-cli conway transaction submit \
--tx-file vote-tx.signed \
--mainnet
```
### Congratulations you did it!
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You can check your vote on cardanoscan.io by going to the governance action and clicking the votes tab at the bottom. For this sample:\
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If you are getting errors, please double check paths. This guide was done using the typical paths and file name from the coincashew original guide.
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Additional Resources:
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## Contributors
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 [xSPO Alliance](http://xspo-alliance.org/discord)
[Earn Coin Pool](https://earncoinpool.com/) for documenting the procedure.
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## Step 1 - Copy Governance Action ID
You will probably use resources like gov.tools, adastat.net or temp.vote to view Governance Actions and read about them. Once you are ready to vote on one of those actions as an SPO, you can copy the Governance id
