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> On 15 July 2016, a short notice on-chain vote was held on the DAO hard fork.[8] Of the 82,054,716 ETH in existence, only 4,542,416 voted, for a total voter turn out of 5.5% of the total supply on 16 July 2016; 3,964,516 ETH (87%) voted in favor, 1/4 of which came from a single address, and 577,899 ETH (13%) opposed the DAO fork.[8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum_Classic#Carbon_vote



Regardless of the vote participants had the choice of staying on the old chain. The fact that they didn't shows the fork was widely supported.




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