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	RECORDED VOTE: HOUSE
		A RECORDED VOTE is a specific type of vote held on the record.
		A Recorded Vote is the only type of vote on the record in the Committee of the Whole.
		In the House, there are 3 types of record votes: a Recorded Vote, the Yeas and Nays, and an automatic Roll Call.
	www.c-span.org /guide/congress/glossary/recordvote-h.htm (84 words)

	Recorded vote - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the United States Congress, a recorded vote is a vote in which the names of those voting for and against a motion may be recorded.
		Questions may be decided by voice vote, but the voice vote does not allow one to determine at a later date which members voted for and against the motion.
		A recorded vote, under the Constitution, may be obtained upon the demand of one-fifth of the members present.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Recorded_vote (839 words)

	Voting : General Assembly (GA) : United Nations (UN) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The UN Library in New York maintains a database with voting records which forms the basis for the voting chart included in the Index to Proceedings of the General Assembly as well as the voting information file contained in UNBISnet.
		An essential tool for research on voting records for resolutions adopted by the General Assembly at its 61st session is the list of resolutions which forms part of this guide.
		The information provided originates from the voting machine in the General Assembly Hall and the same caveat applies to it as to the printed voting charts dating from this period: subsequent notifications are not documented and must therefore be researched in the meeting records.
	www.un.org /Depts/dhl/resguide/gavote.htm (1553 words)

	Station Information - Recorded vote
		There are four ways in which a recorded vote may be demanded, and three ways in which it may be taken.
		Some times, an important vote will be held open by the occupant of the Chair, a member of the majority party, for much longer, so that party leaders can have time to convince members to change their votes.
		The longest ever recorded vote was held in the early hours of November 22, 2003, when the Republican Party held a vote on a Medicare bill open for approximately three hours, during which the President himself worked to convince two Republicans who had voted "No" to change their votes to "Aye."
	www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/r/re/recorded_vote.html (793 words)

	Roll call votes - Congresspedia
		In both the House and Senate, roll call votes are defined as, “a vote on the record” in which the name of each member and his or her voting position is noted.
		Members usually have a minimum of 15 minutes in which to record their votes from the time the recorded vote is ordered.
		In a voice vote, the presiding officer states the question and asks those in favor and against to say “yea” or “nay.” Once the voting has ended, he or she announces the result according to his or her judgment.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Roll_call_votes (714 words)

	Wisconsin State AFL-CIO
		The recorded vote of 50 to 43 was on a motion to adopt Amendment 5 and a vote for adoption was a “wrong” vote.
		The recorded vote of 70 to 26 was on passage and a vote in favor was a “wrong” vote.
		The recorded vote of 57 to 42 was to table the amendment (AA 20 to ASA 1 to SB 55) and a vote in favor of tabling was a “wrong” vote.
	www.wisaflcio.org /legislative/AssemblyBillDesc2002.htm (1689 words)

	Parliamentary Outreach Program Newsletter
		A vote in which members usually respond "aye" or "no" (despite the official title of the vote) on a question when their names are called in alphabetical order.
		The allotted time under the rules for a record vote is "not less than 15 minutes." It is the prerogative of the Speaker or presiding officer whether or not to allow additional time beyond the 15 minutes.
		To obtain a recorded vote in the Committee of the Whole any Member may say, "I request a recorded vote," and, if 25 Members (including the Member who made the request) rise in support of the request to be counted by the chair, the record vote will occur by electronic device.
	www.rules.house.gov /archives/pop106_26.htm (840 words)

	How Laws are Made page 8
		If those voting on the question and those who are present and decline to vote together make a majority of the House, the Speaker declares that a quorum is constituted, and the pending question is decided according to the will of the majority of those voting.
		Recorded and rollcall votes are usually taken by electronic device, except when the Speaker orders the vote to be recorded by other methods prescribed by the rules of the House, or in the failure of the electronic device to function.
		When a Member anticipates being unavoidably absent at the time a vote is to be taken, the Member may arrange in advance to be recorded as being either in favor of or opposed to the question by being ``paired'' with a Member who will also be absent and who holds contrary views on the question.
	www.probush.com /how_laws_are_made_page_8.htm (1900 words)

	Congressional Institute - House Floor Procedures Manual - Final Passage of a Bill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		An alternate means of obtaining a recorded vote when a quorum is not present is to request the “yeas and nays,” which requires that one-fifth of those Members present stand up to order the vote.
		Votes can only be clustered by the Chair when there has not been intervening business between the votes in question.
		By agreement, the voting Member withdraws his or her vote and records his or her self as “present.” If the present Member wishes to announce the “pair,” they must do so prior to the announcement of the final vote total.
	www.conginst.org /FLOOR/XIV.html (957 words)

	Voice vote - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A voice vote is a vote taken on a topic where the participants respond to a question with "yea" (yes), "nay" (no), or "present" (abstain).
		No names or numbers on who voted for what are recorded, and the record will often stand as "unanimously approved by Voice Vote." This tactic is used when the matter in question is either uncontroversial or paradoxically when the matter at hand is quite controversial and participants wish for "political cover."
		Alternative formulations for the vote, depending on the custom of the body, include "aye" for the affirmative and "no" for the negative.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Voice_vote (156 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Inboxer Rebellion (United Condemnations)
		Unless a recorded vote is specifically requested before a resolution is voted upon, the U.N. makes available a voting summary which provides only a tally of the final vote, not a listing of how individual Member States voted.
		States have records of voting against the U.S. that are equally as bad as the records of the countries named in the message above.
		U.N. votes on resolutions are frequently lopsided, pitting a single nation or a handful of nations against all the others, and more often than not the U.S. is the one nation at odds with the rest of the world.
	www.snopes.com /inboxer/outrage/unvote.asp (1031 words)

	electonic voting
		Members should also visually check the voting board to make sure they are recorded and that the light next to their name corresponds with their action.
		If a Member decides during a vote that he or she wants to change a vote, the Member may simply reinsert the card into a voting station and press the appropriate button during the first 10 minutes of a 15-minute vote, or at any time during a 5-minute vote.
		If a Member uses this procedure to change a vote, he or she should be sure to check the board to see that it reflects the change.
	usinfo.org /house/rule/electronic.vote.htm (708 words)

	[05 Nov 1998] GA/DIS/3129 : MEASURES TO PREVENT VIOLENT DISINTEGRATION OF STATES CALLED FOR IN FIRST COMMITTEE TEXT
		By a recorded vote of 77 in favour to 43 against, with 16 abstentions, the Committee approved a draft text on the role of science and technology in the context of international security.
		In explanation of vote after the vote, the representative of the United States said, as had been the case in the past several years, his Government was confused about the purpose and objectives of the draft and strongly questioned its relevance to the work of the Committee.
		Their positive vote on the draft should not be understood as an automatic approval of the establishment of an ad hoc committee, but rather as a demonstration of flexibility on the matter.
	www.fas.org /news/un/other/19981105_gads3129.html (8451 words)

	The Facts
		Or lawmakers can use a “division vote,” where the leader decides a bill’s fate after what the Associated Press calls “a brief show” of how the majority stands — in the House that means members push their electronic voting buttons.
		A vote doesn’t always illustrate the hard-fought amendments and concessions that had to be made to push a bill through, Bonnen said.
		If that’s true, if our lawmakers are so concerned with political cover that they would let the possibility of bad press supersede voting their conscience, that only serves to reinforce the need for recorded votes.
	thefacts.com /story.lasso?ewcd=f966fecf0754fd66 (669 words)

	WHETHER CERTAIN DIRECT RECORDING ELECTRONIC VOTING SYSTEMS COMPLY WITH THE HELP AMERICA VOTE ACT AND THE AMERICANS WITH ...
		DRE voting systems comply with this mandate by providing a final summary screen before the voter asks the machine to officially record his vote, as well as an auditory component that informs sight-impaired and illiterate voters of the summary screen's contents.
		So long as DRE voting systems provide sight-impaired voters with audio equipment that enables them to verify their ballots before they are cast, we conclude that the provision of a contemporaneous paper record to assist sighted voters in verifying their ballots does not run afoul of HAVA.
		To the extent the paper record provides sighted voters with an opportunity to check their ballots, this does not deny a benefit to sight-impaired voters, because the DRE machines' auditory component already provides a means for such voters to verify their ballots before casting them.
	www.usdoj.gov /olc/drevotingsystems.htm (2490 words)

	Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Hansard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the US, where this happened, none of the states that have open adoption records are citing that as a reason not to give adult adoptees and their birth parents their birth information from years ago.
		I thank you on behalf of my sister and the 1,600 people who are waiting for transplants in Ontario today, in some cases on a waiting list that would stretch six years, in the case of kidney donations.
		I read a letter into the record from a woman whose life was saved, luckily, because she found out that her birth mother had died from ovarian cancer.
	www.ontla.on.ca /hansard/house_debates/37_parl/Session4/L010.htm (18996 words)

	RECORDED VOTE: HOUSE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A RECORDED VOTE is a vote held on the record.
		The technical term for a record vote in the Senate is the "Yeas and Nays."
		The vote is held by a call of the roll -- the Senate Clerk reads the names of all Senators in alphabetical order and they respond when their name is called with "yea" "nay" or "present."
	www.c-span.org /guide/congress/glossary/recordvote-s.htm (72 words)

	Congressional Institute - House Floor Procedures Manual - Voting by Electronic Device (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Members deciding to change their vote may do so by reinserting their card into a voting station and pressing the appropriate button during the first 10 minutes of a 15-minute vote, or at any time during a 5-minute vote.
		Also, Members may change their vote during a 5-minute vote by machine and no statement about the change will appear in the Congressional Record unless it comes after the voting stations are closed and before the result of the vote is announced.
		NOTE: Once the record vote ends (by the Chair announcing the result), and the motion to reconsider is laid on the table, the vote is final — no further voting or changing is permitted.
	www.conginst.org /FLOOR/IV.html (807 words)

	Equal Vote Blog - Dan Tokaji
		The decline in non-votes or "residual votes" -- the sum of overvotes (for which more than one vote was cast) and undervotes (for which not vote was recorded) -- is largely attributable to the change in voting equipment.
		We know that in 2000, a disproportionate number of those who didn't have their votes recorded were racial minorities.
		More of their votes, many more, were counted in 2004 than was the case four years ago.
	moritzlaw.osu.edu /blogs/tokaji/2005/02/florida-non-votes-with-new-equipment.html (597 words)

	Big Boatload of Vote Fraud in 2004
		The fact that it is not adds to the suspicion that widespread fraud occurred in vote tallies in the battleground states.
		Let us examine the exit poll predictions versus tallied votes in each of these battleground states combining the male and female vote, weighted for their percentage in the electorate by state.
		While the NYT cites a report issued by pollsters that debunked the possibility that their exit polls are correct and the vote count wrong, they provide no data to support an error in exit polling data.
	www.progress.org /2004/vote32.htm (1669 words)

	General Assembly Reiterates Condemnation of Terrorism; Adopts 65 Resolutions on Social, Humanitarian Issues, 16 by ...
		Another text approved without vote today, on human rights and cultural diversity, urged States to work to ensure that their political and legal systems reflect their multicultural diversity and, where necessary, to improve democratic institutions so that they are more fully participatory and avoid marginalization and exclusion of specific sectors of society.
		It was adopted by a vote of 99 in favour to 10 against (Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, Israel, New Zealand, Norway, Samoa, Tuvalu, United States), with 59 abstentions (Annex VIII).
		The vote of abstention was an acknowledgment of that improvement.
	www.unis.unvienna.org /unis/pressrels/2001/ga10001.html (8733 words)

	Wisconsin State AFL-CIO
		The recorded vote of 21 to 12 is on passage and a vote in favor was a “right” vote.
		The recorded vote of 17 to 15 was on passage and a vote in favor was a “right” vote.
		The recorded vote of 19 to 14 is on passage and a vote in favor of passage was a “right” vote.
	www.wisaflcio.org /legislative/SenateBillDesc2002.htm (1267 words)

	Committee Debates World Refugee Movement, Congratulates High Commissioner on 10-year Stewardship - Committee Adopts ...
		The resolution was adopted by a recorded vote of 147 in favour and 2 against (Israel, United States) with three abstentions (Canada, Marshall Islands, Tonga).
		Speaking in explanation of vote after the vote, Australia's representative said she voted in favour of the resolution as a whole, but would have abstained on operative paragraph 1 if a separate vote had been called for.
		The Russian Federation had voted in favor of the resolution because it was engaged in active efforts to further understanding between Palestinians and Israelis, the representative of that country said.
	www.unis.unvienna.org /unis/pressrels/2000/ga1731.html (6366 words)

	Vote and Verify - Online Verification with Bank-Deposit Reliability
		Vote and Verify is a way to be able to use the efficiency of technology but also completes the loop in such a way that additional technology makes it as secure as making a bank deposit.
		Before the voter leaves the voting location/station, they proceed to a secondary machine, swipe their receipt, see what the receipt says they voted for on a screen, and if it is the same they leave knowing that those numbers represent what they voted for.
		Before the voter leaves the voting location, they proceed to a secondary machine, swipe their receipt, see what the receipt says they voted for on a screen, and if it is the same they leave knowing that those numbers represent what they voted for.
	www.voteandverify.com (4519 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Escape by Voice Vote
		By rejecting the normal option of a recorded vote, America's senators decided that they did not want to be held individually accountable for our continuing presence in Iraq.
		In the fall of 2002, the administration was positively gleeful about forcing Congress to go on record to authorize the coming war, and Democrats from swing states or districts knew they voted no at their own peril.
		Only old Robert Byrd stood on the Senate floor and shouted no when the vote was taken, but Byrd has been casting recorded votes since the waning days of the Roman Republic, and it's a hard habit to break.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A1081-2003Nov4?language=printer (650 words)

	Voting and Technology: Who Gets to Count Your Vote?
		Because the ballot must remain secret, there's no way to check whether the votes were accurately recorded once the voter leaves the booth; neither the recorded vote nor the process of recording it can be directly observed.
		When the results were checked after the election, it was discovered that none of the 65 vote were recorded for the Democrat and Republican candidates for one office, even though 27 votes each were recorded for their running mates.
		The official vote count would be based on the DRE-produced paper ballots, with the DRE machine providing a preliminary total to be checked against the paper ballots in a recount.
	www.schneier.com /essay-101.html (1623 words)

	Project Vote Smart - Vote Smart Classroom: Vocabulary
		A 3/5 majority of those present and voting is required to pass bills on the Corrections Calendar.
		The override of a veto requires a recorded vote with a two-thirds majority in each chamber.
		In this case, 2/3 majority of those present and voting in both the House and the Senate and 3/4 ratification of the states are required for the Constitutional amendment to be adopted.
	www.vote-smart.org /resource_classroom_03.php (1890 words)

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