Timeline for answer to Are the ballots in the American Congress anonymous? by Jen
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| Feb 19, 2025 at 15:50 | comment | added | ohwilleke | @user541686 Secrecy is decided in the case of each House in Congress by a vote of the members of that House. | |
| Feb 19, 2025 at 4:21 | comment | added | user541686 | Who decides (or rather, how many people decide) secrecy? | |
| Feb 18, 2025 at 17:06 | comment | added | Daniel Schilling | Looks like New York, Illinois, and Ohio were the states still in the Union most strongly against the abolition of slavery. I find that surprising. | |
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| Feb 18, 2025 at 7:49 | vote | accept | Neil Meyer | ||
| Feb 18, 2025 at 5:03 | history | edited | Jen♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 17, 2025 at 23:45 | comment | added | ohwilleke | Also worth noting that intra-party votes can be anonymous as those are not actual Congressional votes subject to the U.S. Constitution. Related politics.stackexchange.com/questions/89843/… | |
| Feb 17, 2025 at 22:57 | comment | added | ohwilleke | @Jen as the quoted language indicates, however, a vote may be kept secret according to the terms that Congress establishes, even if the votes are actually recorded. This is done only very rarely, however, in the modern U.S. Congress, and usually only for matters related to appropriations for covert operations. | |
| Feb 17, 2025 at 17:23 | comment | added | Barmar | This is why they often call for a vote even when they know it will fail -- they want the members who vote against it to be on the record. | |
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| Feb 17, 2025 at 13:41 | history | answered | Jen♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |