OZ Error: 'Governor: proposer votes below proposal threshold'

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Setup my Governor contract with a threshold of 20 votes, in order to create a proposal.

In my unit test, i minted and transferred 999 tokens to another address, addr1. I consoled-out and confirmed the votes of addr1 is 999.

When the governor executes the propose(),

Error: VM Exception while processing transaction: reverted with reason string 'Governor: proposer votes below proposal threshold'

I'm not sure how i get addr1 to have enough votes over the threshold, even after delegation.

:1234: Code to reproduce

it("should delegate votes to addr1", async () => {
const votesToBeDelegated = 999;
await gov.mint(owner.address, votesToBeDelegated);
const tx = await gov.connect(owner).delegate(addr1.address);
await tx.wait(1);

const votesAddr1 = await gov.getVotes(addr1.address);
const numCheckpoints = await gov.numCheckpoints(addr1.address);
console.log(`votesAddr1: ${votesAddr1} numCheckpoints: ${numCheckpoints}`);
expect(votesAddr1).to.equal(votesToBeDelegated);
expect(numCheckpoints).to.equal(1);

});

it("should make a proposal", async () => {
const encodedFunctionCall = fiqToken.interface.encodeFunctionData("mint", [
addr3.address,
999,
]);

const threshold = await governor.proposalThreshold();
const votesGovernor = await gov.getVotes(governor.address);
const voteAddr1 = await gov.getVotes(addr1.address);
const voteOwner = await gov.getVotes(owner.address);
console.log(`threshold: ${threshold / Math.pow(10, 18)}`);
console.log(`votesGovernor: ${votesGovernor}`);
console.log(`voteAddr1: ${voteAddr1}`);
console.log(`voteOwner: ${voteOwner}`);

const proposeTx = await governor
  .connect(addr1)
  .propose(
    [fiqToken.address],
    [0],
    [encodedFunctionCall],
    "Testing proposal"
  );

const proposeReceipt = await proposeTx.wait(1);
const proposalId = proposeReceipt.events[0].args.proposalId;
let proposalState = await governor.state(proposalId);
console.log(`Current Proposal State: ${proposalState}`);

});

:computer: Environment

Hardhat

2

Can you share what the console.log printed?

3

@JulissaDantes No worries. i solved it during the weekend. CHeers

4

Happy to hear that!, could you share the solution? in case someone else has this same issue in the future?

5

Here is my initialise() of governor contract:

function initialize(
    Membership membership,
    IVotesUpgradeable _token,
    TimelockControllerUpgradeable _timelock
) public initializer {
    __Governor_init("GovernorFIQ");
    __GovernorSettings_init(
        1, /* 1 block */
        91636, /* 2 week */
        20 /* 20 votes*/
    );
    __GovernorCountingSimple_init();
    __GovernorVotes_init(_token);
    __GovernorVotesQuorumFraction_init(4);
    __GovernorTimelockControl_init(_timelock);

    _membership = membership;
}

after generating from wizard, I didnt realise my initial proposal threshold was 20e18 which is a huge number for my governance-erc20 token. i amended it to just 20 votes to raise a proposal.

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To provide some more context, the Wizard sets it as 20e18 because it assumes the contract has 18 decimals. You can configure that too!

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