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

Posted by mminnick 12 years ago to Politics
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Does this mean that the billsin Congress that are passed on voice vote are invalid and should now be re-voted using electronic means?

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  • Posted by MattFranke 11 years, 12 months ago in reply to this comment.
    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 $ Mimi 11 years, 12 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Have a crush on Captain Picard? I did when Patrick Steward was younger. Great voice.
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  • Posted by mminnick 11 years, 12 months ago in reply to this comment.
    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 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 khalling 11 years, 12 months ago in reply to this comment.
    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 Hiraghm 11 years, 12 months ago in reply to this comment.
    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 Hiraghm 11 years, 12 months ago in reply to this comment.
    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 Hiraghm 11 years, 12 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "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 Hiraghm 11 years, 12 months ago in reply to this comment.
    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 in reply to this comment.
    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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