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Fortunately, the Raft literature documents the preventions to avoid such things from happening.a corner case. The idea is called `pre-vote`, which is that the leader of the quorum will try to send out a request to all the known voters and ask whether they would vote for it. 

Public Interfaces

Briefly list any new interfaces that will be introduced as part of this proposal or any existing interfaces that will be removed or changed. The purpose of this section is to concisely call out the public contract that will come along with this feature.

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