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The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
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The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
- Vote date
- 2024-12-20
- Chamber
- senate
- Result
- passed
- Yeas
- 23
- Nays
- 15
- Excused
- 0
- Not voting
- 0
- Related measure
- measure-5398
- Related sitting
- sitting-757
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- Chamber
- senate
- Context text
- poll book matches the number of the ballot, because these ballots are no longer numbered. Why? What is the problem? Where did we have the need for this? Because we didn’t have a committee hearing on it, that I can remember, I’m not aware of what the need is. And so I voted “no” because it just doesn’t seem like there was a big problem out in the countryside with this issue, and now we’ve potentially created a problem of keeping our ballots straight, and making sure that the books line up and balance, and unbalanced books are always a bad sign in an election and create additional havoc. That’s why I voted “no.” The following bill was read a third time: House Bill No. 6053, entitled A bill to amend 1969 PA 161, entitled “An act to regulate the filing of certain actions involving elections,” by amending section 1 (MCL 691.1031); and to repeal acts and parts of acts. The question being on the passage of the bill, The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
- Excused
- 0
- Measure id
- measure-5398
- Motion text
- The bill was passed, a majority of the members serving voting therefor, as follows:
- Nays
- 15
- Not voting
- 0
- Result
- passed
- Sitting id
- sitting-757
- Vote date
- 2024-12-20
- Vote id
- vote-8245
- Vote number
- 727
- Yeas
- 23
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