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This KIP will go over scenarios where we might expect disruptive servers and discuss how Pre-Vote (as originally detailed in the Raft paper and in KIP-650) along with Followers rejecting Pre-Vote Requests can ensure correctness when it comes to network partitions.  

Pre-Vote is the idea of “canvasing” “canvassing” the cluster to check if it would receive a majority of votes - if yes it increases its epoch and sends a disruptive vote request. If not, it does not increase its epoch and does not send a vote request. 

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