VOTING IN HOUSE
Abolition Of Secrecy
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WASHINGTON, July 28. The House of Representatives yesterday voted to end secret voting procedures, borrowed from the British Parliament in colonial times. The House adopted by voice vote a bipartisan proposal to abolish the system of teller votes on the floor by which members’ names are not recorded when they cast ballots.
The British Parliament used the system to protect members from retaliation by the King, but the House of Commons abolished it 140 years ago. Yesterday’s vote was on an amendment proposed by Mr Charles Gubser (Republican, California), co-sponsored by 173 members and backed by the leadership of both parties.
The amendment would authorise tally clerks who now just count the number of “yes” and “no” voters passing down the aisle on a teller vote —to record the names of individual voters on each side, and publicise them in the press and the Congressional record.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32361, 29 July 1970, Page 17
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