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# Buying Gauge Votes
Buying votes on Votex will allow you to increase your weight on gauges that control SBR incentives for liquidity farming. To do so, go to the "Buy" tab, and you'll see a list of liquidity pools available on Saber.
During any given window, users will be able to bid for a share of the total veSBR available on Votex. This means that your share can fluctuate until the voting window is closed. If only one bidder buys vote, they will get 100% of the veSBR available on Votex. If two bidders buy vote, it will be distributed based on the amount of money they deposited.
List of Saber Pools available on Votex
Timing
The protocol flow occurs in 7 day epochs, aligned with Tribeca. The protocol has three different phases, which occur simultaneously in a pipeline.\
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1\) Vote Buying
2\) Voting
3\) Distributing Incentives\
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Let's call the current epoch, shown in the top left on the [delegate tab](https://vota.fi/delegate) epoch N.\
N is the number of the current epoch for distributing incentives on the Saber DEX. If you buy votes for a gauge now, you are buying for distribution in epoch number N + 2.
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It will take 2 epochs for N + 2 to progress through the pipeline to the Distributing Incentives phase.\
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So, it will take anywhere from 7 to 14 days for vote buys to result in reward distributions. It will take 14 days for votes bought on the beginning of the first day of an epoch or 7 for votes bought right before the end of an epoch.
### Metrics
This section informs you on the current state of veSBR repartition across bidders. You can identify how much incentives are being directed by Tribeca votes and Votex votes.
### Buying
To process a buy, first connect your wallet. Then click the buy button next to the pool you wish to buy incentives for. This will open a modal with a field allowing you to enter the amount you're willing to put in to buy the votes. As mentioned above, you get a % of the veSBR based on the amount you're putting in vs how much is already deposited by other users
As you enter the amount, you get an estimate of how much incentives (in USD) your pool would be getting.
With no bid, $0 goes to the JSOL-SOL pool
In this scenario, with 0.03 $META, you get 66% of the votes
Navigate to the pool that interests you and click on buy. You'll see a modal where you can purchase votes in three currencies: $META, $BLZE, or $USDC.
Based on your bid (and others' bids), Votex will use the delegated veSBR (proportional to your bid) to vote on your gauge. This is done once week at the beginning of a new epoch.
Conversion price is calculated once (when script is run)
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