Letter to the editor published in the Marietta Daily Journal today
“Senator answers: Maybe all votes weren’t counted”
DEAR EDITOR:
A few days ago an MDJ columnist called me out [1] alleging I did not support a procedural request for a roll call vote on a bill with a provision related to separate bill, Senate Bill 6. I am a co-sponsor of SB 6, not a reluctant co-sponsor, as he alleged.
The hands went up to request a roll call, or a recorded vote on a proposed amendment, and perhaps all hands were not all counted. The lieutenant governor moved on.
Hand and voice votes are common parliamentary practice and authorized in perhaps every legislature in the country as well as at the national level to speed along debate.
Sen. Judson Hill
East Cobb