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Posted by Dinah on October 9, 2006, at 1:14:49
That said that legislators in our state are allowed to vote one way on the floor, and then have the records changed to show they voted differently (apparently to not have unpopular votes on record for constituents), as long as the end result of the vote wouldn't change. And that the legislators are upset because the recorder of the votes wants to have the procedure formalized, because that would allow reporters to find out what happened.
Could this be true? Or is it an April Fools joke?
Posted by Dinah on October 9, 2006, at 1:19:24
In reply to There was an article in the paper, posted by Dinah on October 9, 2006, at 1:14:49
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/editorials/index.ssf?/base/news-3/116011444878540.xml&coll=1
Posted by Jost on October 10, 2006, at 21:02:54
In reply to Re: There was an article in the paper, posted by Dinah on October 9, 2006, at 1:19:24
But at what point do they know it won't change the outcome of an election?
If everyone who votes for something "bad" changes their vote so as to seem good-- when are the votes counted? And how does anyone know that enough people haven't changed their votes so as to change the outcome?
Does the clerk have open office hours, at 3 pm, and does a line form in the hall, so that only the first "x" number of legislators (the number of votes = to changing the outcome -1) are allowed to change?
That's worthy of SNL skit. Seriously. What next?
Jost
Posted by Dinah on October 12, 2006, at 8:56:16
In reply to Re: There was an article in the paper » Dinah, posted by Jost on October 10, 2006, at 21:02:54
It *would* make a good skit, wouldn't it? I was heartened to hear that this couldn't happen in the state senate at least.
I'm hoping that now we're aware of it, we can do something about it. Although, how would we really know who voted for reform? Clearly the news media needs to get together and pay for someone to sit in the house galley and read the vote totals and compare them with the published voting records.
I wonder if the state attorney general has an opinion on the legaility of this. Does a law really need to be made, or can current laws be interpreted to cover this issue? It would seem that any general law that the voting records reflect the vote would cover this easily.
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