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To: smoothsailing

Both parties need to figure out a way to efficiently hold a role call vote at their conventions. When the Republicans did the same thing over party rules, there were calls for a roll call that were ignored. And one of the reasons is they estimated it would be a 3 hour delay to implement a role call vote.

Without an efficient (Prob electronic) method of polling votes, they are both limited to voice votes and subjective interpretation of the results.


7 posted on 09/06/2012 1:10:01 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN

A less time consuming process would be to caucus and vote. Allow say 20 minutes for state delegations to caucus. Then the vote would be called with each delegation casting one vote. You could do the whole thing in a half hour.

It would be very similar to the representative nature of the U.S. Senate.


9 posted on 09/06/2012 1:22:43 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: DannyTN

“Without an efficient (Prob electronic) method of polling votes, they are both limited to voice votes and subjective interpretation of the results.”

The Republican one wasn’t subjective - it was obvious the no vote was louder - twice - and it was obvious they called it the way they wanted it, plus they refused to do a role call vote as required by the rules. That vote will effectively throw out conservative and Tea Party participation in the future. That is much more damage than the Democrat fake vote to put words back in resolutions.

The intelligent thing to do is store water and food as neither party can prevent what is coming.


25 posted on 09/06/2012 2:41:03 PM PDT by Marcella (Conservatism is dead. PREPARE)
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