The 2024 Connecticut General Assembly listens to Gov. Ned Lamont’s State of the State address. Credit: Shahrzad Rasekh / CT Mirror The first bedrock rule of legislative procedure violated by the ...
A simple majority could radically change Wisconsin ... in favorable or unfavorable ways often dictates what voters do. For example, one study looked at the wording of three potential ballot ...
When there are no vacancies, there are 435 members; if everybody shows up, it takes a bare majority, 218 votes, to pass a bill. In practical terms, a majority party needs well over 218 seats to ...
Methods for tallying votes to determine a primary election's outcome include plurality counts and majority counts. Forty-one states require that a candidate receive a plurality of all votes cast in ...
Divide the Question: Any delegate may motion to divide the question, this is adopted (ex: “motion to divide the question on clause 3, 7, and 15”), and must be passed by simple majority. Motions to ...