> 3. Now, master crashes and new master gets picked from the other half which never updated their states > Wouldn’t we have inconsistent state now? No. The ha

> 3. Now, master crashes and new master gets picked from the other half which never updated their states > Wouldn’t we have inconsistent state now? No. The half that received the event will all have a higher event count (what raft refers to as a "term"), so one of them will become the master because they're not voting for someone who knows less than they do (and neither is anyone else!)