Raft Consensus with a Minority of Nodes
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<p>Nodes 4 and 6 recover. Now nodes 2, 4, and 6 are active. Node 2 starts a new election (term 3).</p> <p>The vote set is {2, 4, 6} = bloc $B_4$. Election succeeds!</p> <p>Now recall: the last commit (Scenario 2) was made by bloc $B_1 = \{1, 2, 3\}$. The election bloc is $B_4 = \{2, 4, 6\}$. Their i