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	Conscience vote - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A conscience vote or free vote is a type of vote in a legislative body where legislators are each expected to vote according to their own personal conscience rather than according to an official line set down by their political party.
		Conscience votes are usually quite rare and are often about an issue which is very contentious, or a matter on which the members of any single party differ in their opinions, thus making it difficult for parties to formulate official policies.
		Usually, a conscience vote will be about moral or ethical issues rather than about administrative or financial ones; matters such as the prohibition of alcohol, homosexual law reform and the legality of prostitution are often subject to conscience votes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Conscience_vote (354 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - Call for conscience vote on Rights Charter - Thursday \| March 18, 2004
		GOVERNMENT SENATOR Trevor Munroe is calling for a conscience vote in Parliament on the Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, in light of an unresolved split over the wording of sections of the charter.
		Senator Munroe, speaking at yesterday's deliberations by the Joint Select Committee of Parliament, suggested that a conscience vote might be the answer to the sharply differing views that had emerged, not necessarily along party lines, on some elements of the changes being proposed.
		The committee spent most of the meeting debating the wording of the provision for restricting rights and freedoms during a period of public emergency or public disaster.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20040318/lead/lead3.html (392 words)

	The Dome of Conscience (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Elected officials and lawmakers in all countries are invited to vote in the Dome of Conscience.
		Repeat voting is encouraged and never causes vote stacking as the system counts the last vote only for each forum member.
		Click the "Who's Voting" link to see a list of all lawmakers who are members of the parliament, congress or legislature and the date of their last vote.
	www.domevote.com (954 words)

	PinoyOnBoard.com - A Conscience Vote Is Not a Wasted Vote
		I wanted very much to vote but could not, thanks to the Philippine COMELEC officials and the lawmakers who were so scared of the Filipino-American vote that they made it extremely difficult for Overseas Filipino like us who are thousands of miles away from the nearest consulate to register and vote.
		A conscience vote is a vote for idealism, and a vote for idealism is never wasted.
		A vote for Heherson Alvarez is a strong vote for idealism and patriotism.
	www.pinoyonboard.com /2004/0510_vote.html (880 words)

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		Bonior, who was called "a voice of conscience" by the late representative Claude Pepper, someone around Washington long enough to know, should be the obvious choice of those Democrats who care about reviving the party from its issueless torpor.
		In both personal grace and political substance, Bonior, 15 years in the House, carries on the kind of liberalism that marked the vision of another Michigan Democrat, Sen. Philip Hart, who died in 1976, the year Bonior was elected.
		It is said of Bonior that his votes against federal funding for abortion represent a deviancy the party can't allow.
	www.swiss.ai.mit.edu /~rauch/nvp/profile/mccarthy_bonior.html (535 words)

	Politics \| A conscience vote (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		I honestly believe that he would be a good choice to represent me and the rest of the local population, but I can't forget the firefighters' strike, the Iraq war and the way government targets on the environment have been pushed aside in the interests of big business.
		Voting for Jeremy Corbyn would also mean voting for Tony Blair and the rest of the Labour party.
		In the final analysis I want to vote for what I think is right and the rest of the petty squabbles and arguments pale into insignificance in the face of the environmental challenges which face us at the moment.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5185439-114505,00.html (344 words)

	Free Votes in Australian and some Overseas Parliaments
		The term conscience vote is most commonly used in Australia to describe votes on moral and social issues such as abortion, euthanasia and capital punishment (life and death issues).
		Free vote (or conscience vote)'a rare vote in parliament, in which members are not obliged by the parties to follow a party line, but vote according to their own moral, political, religious, or social beliefs'.
		Free votes are not usually allowed on economic issues or issues that have a significant impact on the budget although 'until 1936 tariff proposals were free votes in both Houses in the Australian Parliament'.
	www.aph.gov.au /library/pubs/cib/2002-03/03cib01.htm (7596 words)

	portland imc - 2004.02.19 - While Dean Conned Anti War Vote Party Bosses Laughed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Two men who voted for the war and are now claiming to be jilted lovers saying that they were misled by the Bush regime, a totally disingenuous strategy to deflect the criticism of both their votes.
		I say Vote for Rev. Al Sharpton and Congressman Dennis Kucinich in the remainder of the primary elections and stick it to the remaining con men in the race, Senator John Edwards and Senator John Kerry.
		Voting for Nader or rather supporting Nader's run for the presidency will force the Democrats to compete in the market of ideas and to face up to the Democratic Party's own internal problems.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2004/02/280833.shtml (3590 words)

	Crosswalk.com - Abstention by Muslim Lawmaker Tips Scales on Prostitution Law (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		His decision on Wednesday night to abstain in a conscience vote on the Prostitution Reform Bill helped produce a 60-59 vote in favor of the law, which decriminalizes prostitution and was firmly opposed by church groups in the country.
		Parties gave their members a free vote on the bill to legalize prostitution, although in the end most members of the Labor Party voted in favor (41-10) and most MPs of the official opposition, center-right National MPs voted against (6-21).
		One who had resisted and voted against it had told her, "I'm going to be on the backbench from now on," she added.
	www.crosswalk.com /news/1206791.html (1091 words)

	Will You Vote? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Voting in a free election is both a privilege and a responsibility of the Christian citizen.
		Voting is one the most basic "ruling" privileges and responsibilities you have as a citizen and God expects that you should exercise it with prayer, careful thought and study of the candidates and issues.
		Even if you cannot, in good conscience) vote for a candidate in every office, you owe it to God to cast your vote as if it were the deciding vote on every candidate you can.
	www.chapelofthelake.org /vote.htm (2245 words)

	PM - Crean says no to conscience vote
		It amazes me that we had a conscience vote over stem cell research, we certainly should have one for this.
		ALEXANDRA KIRK: Harry Quick says his push for a conscience vote has nothing to do with party instability or Simon Crean's leadership, and he understands the consequence of crossing the floor.
		While some Labor MPs are pushing for a conscience vote, others are gearing up to fight for a policy change, which would mean no Australian involvement.
	www.abc.net.au /pm/stories/s683731.htm (747 words)

	CARDINAL SUPPORTS IVF CONSCIENCE VOTE FOR PARLIAMENTARIANS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Archbishop of Sydney, Cardinal Edward Clancy, has challenged all political parties to allow a conscience vote when IVF leglislation is put to the vote in Parliament.
		In a letter to the Weekend Australian, he argued that because freedom of conscience is a fundamental human right, no political party should in any circumstances require its members to vote against their consciences.
		He wrote: "Acknowledging the right of a child to both a father and a mother belongs quite clearly to the domain of conscience and that is beyond question or doubt.
	www.cathnews.com /news/008/84.html (135 words)

	For Dissenters, 'Nos' Were a Vote of Conscience
		They were the dissenters: 133 House members who voted Thursday and 23 senators who voted early today against a resolution to grant President Bush broad authority to make war against Iraq if diplomacy fails to stop the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.
		Most who voted against this year's Iraq resolution were Democrats: 126 in the House and 21 in the Senate.
		Still, many of the dissenters made clear that the vote was one of the toughest of their careers.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines02/1011-02.htm (1095 words)

	Arizona Daily Wildcat - Vote with conscience - Wednesday September 25, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		He claims that, as a liberal, it is my duty to vote for the only viable leftist candidate in the gubernatorial race.
		We are trained to believe that to vote for a third-party candidate ÷ or a no-party candidate, or no candidate at all ÷ is to throw our vote away.
		Here's the paradox: Either your vote doesn't make a difference, in which case you should vote according to what lets you sleep most comfortably at night; or it does, in which case you have even more reason to vote according to your conscience.
	wildcat.arizona.edu /papers/96/22/03_2.html (776 words)

	Medicare Bill Vote Battle Erupts Into Bribery and Extortion
		Mike was all over the news eloquently dismantling this bill, arguing that he could never in good conscience look his children in the eyes and tell them that he had voted for a $1 trillion entitlement program that they would have to pay for some day.
		The plan of action was for these conservatives to go to the floor and record their “no” votes immediately, which would signal to the Democrats that there were not enough Republican votes to pass the bill.
		I really believe that if we could have won this vote against the most powerful whip operation in the history of the House and a popular Republican President, it would have proven to the Republican establishment that conservatives are sick of the spending splurge that is going on in Washington.
	www.yuricareport.com /Medicare/MedicareBillArmTwistingTactics.html (2015 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Vote your conscience (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		He implies that anyone who votes Democrat or Republican is somehow not able to say they voted for good leaders.
		Voting for another party — other than Democrat or Republican — is not a guarantee of good leadership.
		I would rather vote for a candidate who votes with his conscience than one who votes with his party.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595082543,00.html (107 words)

	(DV) Glick: Conscience and Political Organizing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Other Greens have said, with some validity, aren't we always urging voters in all elections, whatever state they're in, to “vote their conscience?” After all, they imply, we certainly aren't telling people to ignore what that still small voice tells them to do in the voting booth.
		It is a sad fact that progressive political movements which denigrate the importance of conscience, or just ignore it as an operating principle, sooner or later become something very different from what they originally began as.
		The difficulties faced by those who have come to power as a result of their commitment to social and economic justice have led not just individuals but organizations down a path of pursuing personal or bureaucratic power, wealth and privileges, or both.
	www.dissidentvoice.org /Aug04/Glick0824.htm (633 words)

	Camassia » Vote your conscience
		I have to say, this business of permanently depriving convicts of the vote always bugged the crap out of me. If a law is unjust, or if the law is unjustly administered, disenfranchising the people most affected by it would be a great way to keep that from ever changing.
		I suppose people are worried about the converse: felons might vote themselves treatment that’s too lenient.
		I suspect that they are restoring the voting rights of all the people who were erroneously removed before the 2000 election, but they are sticking to their story that they were all “felons” to save face.
	www.notfrisco2.com /camassiablog?p=44 (397 words)

	The American Muslim Vote 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Voting as block, was therefore of great strategic importance to American Muslims then.
		If American Muslims played the block vote politics again by endorsing the democratic candidate the potential gains through a democratic victory needs to be balanced against the dangers of another Bush victory.
		Voting blocks are antithetical to the spirit of democracy; they involve an undemocratic imposition of agenda defined by the elite on all members of the community.
	www.ijtihad.org /Muslimvote2004.htm (1052 words)

	Vote your conscience, Nader urges big crowd in D.C. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		"A vote for your hopes, a vote for your dreams, a vote for higher expectation levels of what our country can become and what it can mean to the world," Nader, the Green Party candidate for president, said yesterday before more than 10,000 people at the MCI Center here.
		A freshman at George Washington University, Goldshteyn said she supported Nader because "it's better to vote for someone who you completely believe in." But she added that if she lived in a swing state, she might vote for Gore because the idea of a Bush presidency "is very scary."
		Still, there was a sense of pride, almost glee, among many Nader supporters that their campaign had drawn so much attention by having posed a threat to Gore.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /national/ralf06.shtml (652 words)

	Ballot time in America, Vote your conscience (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		I don't know about the others, but I saw his tireless opposition on the floor of the senate with my own eyes- His lone voice was to be the voice of courage and logic amidst confusion and chaos.
		If you vote, you are in effect saying "I support his views or agendas"..
		So vote for the candidate of your choice, but please do not vote before you have the facts and know what each candidate stands for, I don't care who he is
	www.conquerors.us /vote.htm (962 words)

	The Western Herald - During election, vote your conscience, not the party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Some say that this passion from third party candidates spoils the election, or that people are wasting their votes when they vote for a third party.
		I believe that voting for a Democrat or a Republican is a waste of a vote.
		When you vote third party you really make your vote count by proclaiming that you are sick of Democrats and Republicans putting the needs of corporations ahead of your own needs.
	www.westernherald.com /vnews/display.v/ART/2004/10/27/417ed9dbdaf73 (1049 words)

	How Can You Expect Your Elected Officials To Vote Their Conscience If You Don't?
		As a Senator, Al Gore voted to confirm Scalia, one of the justices he now hypocritically parades as an example of why progressives must vote (for Gore) against Bush, instead of voting for Ralph Nader or other challengers.
		In the Senate, he voted for the Hyde Amendment's restrictions on access to abortion for poor women.
		Bush's goal is "ending legal abortion" (an accusation utterly lacking evidence) and concludes, "Before voting Nader, consider the risk." Clinton and Gore have failed to act in any way while abortion was made unavailable in 86% of the counties in the United States during their two terms.
	www.commondreams.org /views/102800-105.htm (937 words)

	Flynn urges Catholics to vote their conscience: 8/ 19/ 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Flynn's low-key message was mainly a call for Catholics to register, become politically active and vote.
		A few votes, he reminded them, made the difference not just in the 2000 presidential race but in several presidential races, notably when Hubert Humphrey lost to Richard Nixon in 1968.
		Flynn called on Catholic clergy to be allowed to speak their political minds from the pulpit.
	www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/08-04/08-19-04/a01lo196.htm (658 words)

	U-WIRE.com/COLUMN: Vote by your conscience, not by your party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		My vote is a defiant fist in the air.
		The saddest part is, over the next few months both Bush and Kerry are going to be tripping over themselves, trying to win those 10 percent of the population who are so-called swing voters.
		But casting a vote for a candidate who doesn't inspire you or reflect your views, in my opinion, is a throwaway vote.
	www.uwire.com /content/topops060304003.html (656 words)

	The Hindu : Women's groups call for conscience vote
		Women's groups have asked the members of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council to vote on the Permanent Resident (disqualification) Bill, 2004, according to their conscience and not their party's diktat.
		The Bill, which was ratified by the Legislative Assembly on March 5, is slated to be introduced in the Legislative Council tomorrow.
		The front appealed to the MLCs to vote against the Bill, which they described as "draconian and anti-women".
	www.hindu.com /2004/03/11/stories/2004031103221200.htm (155 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> News -> India -> Censure motion is a conscience vote: Cong (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Indiainfo.com -> News -> India -> Censure motion is a conscience vote: Cong
		Asserting that it would be Congress' endeavour to work towards passage of the Opposition-sponsored motion under Rule 184 which requires voting, he said that the party stand on removal of Gujarat Chief Minister remained unchanged.
		Congress has already issued a whip to its members to vote in support of the motion.
	newsarchives.indiainfo.com /2002/04/29/29cong1.html (163 words)

	reviewjournal.com -- Opinion: EDITORIAL: Vote of conscience (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		As the Senate narrowly approved the dramatic expansion of Medicare by a 54-44 margin Tuesday morning, both of Nevada's senators voted against the bill, though for different reasons.
		Republican Sen. John Ensign voted no because the bill foreshadows a fiscal nightmare.
		Kudos to Sen. Ensign for following his conscience and resisting the significant political pressure applied by the White House, congressional leaders and special interests.
	www.reviewjournal.com /lvrj_home/2003/Nov-26-Wed-2003/opinion/22668749.html (226 words)

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