Do the 'ayes' really have it? Researchers show that voice votes are invalid

Posted by mminnick 12 years ago to Politics

Does this mean that the billsin Congress that are passed on voice vote are invalid and should now be re-voted using electronic means?

SOURCE URL: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/02/07/do-ayes-really-have-it/?intcmp=features

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Posted by MattFranke 11 years, 12 months ago

No, it should just mean that all bills passed by congress is say the last 100 years should just go ahead and be shit-canned. That would be nice.

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  Posted by mminnick 11 years, 12 months ago
  
  I'm not sure about dumping all the voice vote passed laws but we really should abandon the voice vote from here on out.
  Make all of the Gentlemen go on record as to how they voted. Make them stand on what they did. The congressional record would make interesting reading if that happened or at least it would make better toilet paper. (mor of it to use).
  
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Posted by khalling 11 years, 12 months ago

I graduated from Iowa. I'm glad you posted this. very interesting. I remember when it happened and the dems pulled back and debbie wasserman lier backpeddled that HUGE.

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  Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 12 months ago
  
  "I graduated from Iowa."
  AWASUX.
  
  Had fun trying to explain my T-shirt with that written on it to my elderly (and prudish) aunt. :)
  
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  Posted by UncommonSense 11 years, 12 months ago
  
  You're a Hawkeye?!
  
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    Posted by mminnick 11 years, 12 months ago
    
    You didn't really ask me but I'll answer anyway. My wife is 100% Hawkeye. Born and raised in Iowa. I'm a transplant. Moved there when I was in 9th grade. Went to Grad school at the University of Iowa in Mathematics. Wife is an RN from there.
    
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      Posted by khalling 11 years, 12 months ago
      
      Small world
      
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      Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 12 months ago
      
      Oh my gawd. I'm surrounded by the enema.
      
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        Posted by mminnick 11 years, 12 months ago
        
        I"ll take it thet you type as badly as I do. You meant enemy correct? :)
        
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    Posted by khalling 11 years, 12 months ago
    
    why yes I am
    
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      Posted by UncommonSense 11 years, 12 months ago
      
      wow. For some reason, I always thought of you being from Texas. If you were there during 1993-'94, we were within 2 hours of each other.
      
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        Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 12 months ago
        
        JUST because you're from the state of Iowa doesn't make you a "Hawkeye". I grew up in Cyclone Country, tyvm.
        
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        Posted by khalling 11 years, 12 months ago
        
        do I have a texan accent?
        
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        Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 12 months ago
        
        Someone is down-voting each of your posts in this conversation; it's not me. I'm trying to vote them back up.
        
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        Posted by mminnick 11 years, 12 months ago
        
        That happened to me the other night. Someone went through and downed most of my posts to 0 or -1. It was later corrected, but there does seem to be someone in the Gulch that likes to ding people.
        
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        Posted by MattFranke 11 years, 12 months ago
        
        Yup, happened to me last week. Got it straight-ish. Probably someone who lives in mommy's basement and is incapable of creative, productive thought; and therefore, must resort to mindless destruction of those that are, in whatever menial way they can come up with. As far as I'm concerned, it adds validity to the things that we are doing here, if we are getting under somebodies skin and making them uncomfortable. As far as the points, no skin off my back.
        
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        Posted by khalling 11 years, 12 months ago
        
        they are targeting those on the leader board
        
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        Posted by LetsShrug 11 years, 12 months ago
        
        They can figure out who "they" are. Why don't they?
        
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        Posted by khalling 11 years, 12 months ago
        
        I didn't think it was. it's ok. I've got a few
        
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        Posted by Mimi 11 years, 12 months ago
        
        No. But I use to think that maybe you were British, or that you might have a crush on Captain Picard because you always write, “just so”. :)
        
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        Posted by khalling 11 years, 12 months ago
        
        useful phrase.
        I looked up captain picard. star trek?! I think not
        
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        Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 12 months ago
        
        I picked up a box of "Victorian Earl Grey", Celestial Seasonings brand tea today.
        
        TNG fans will get the reference :)
        
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        Posted by Mimi 11 years, 12 months ago
        
        "Earl Grey tea, hot"
        
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        Posted by Hiraghm 11 years, 12 months ago
        
        Nope, scratch Victorian Earl Grey. I like Lipton instant better...
        
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        Posted by UncommonSense 11 years, 12 months ago
        
        Do you? :)
        
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        Posted by Mimi 11 years, 12 months ago
        
        Have a crush on Captain Picard? I did when Patrick Steward was younger. Great voice.
        
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        Posted by khalling 11 years, 12 months ago
        
        I was in Chicago by then. married with two kids. 2 hours away. huh. where were you? Des Moines?
        
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        Posted by UncommonSense 11 years, 12 months ago
        
        Ah. Nope. In Omaha.
        
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        Posted by khalling 11 years, 12 months ago
        
        uh-you drive fast
        
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        Posted by UncommonSense 11 years, 12 months ago
        
        =) My mistake, I thought you were in Des Moines.
        
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        Posted by khalling 11 years, 12 months ago
        
        that's closer to Hiraghm's neck of the woods. Iowa City is dead center of the state. I grew up in Mt. Pleasant which is near the MIssissippi and about 3 hours from St. Louis on hwy 61 which turns into 218 in Iowa. I think I could still drive that route in my sleep.
        
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        Posted by UncommonSense 11 years, 12 months ago
        
        Cool. Thanks for sharing.
        
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Posted by Starwagen 11 years, 12 months ago

That's why you can always call for a 'Division of the house'

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