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How does Rita Hart know that 22 votes weren't counted?
According to the notice of contest filed by Rita Hart, the evidence for the 22 ballots comes from a combination of poll workers, county recount board records, county auditor records, and affirmations ...
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Maxine Waters "passed 3 bills in Congress in 27 years"?
The information you're looking for is available on govtrack.us, but you need to know what to search for.
In this context, "passing" a bill (without any qualifiers) generally means introducing it and ...
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Does Kamala Harris vote with Trump's position less often than Bernie Sanders?
538 actually has whole analysis devoted to this, showing both how often a member votes in line with Trump's position and comparing that to Trump's vote share in their district.
According to their ...
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Maxine Waters "passed 3 bills in Congress in 27 years"?
From the Advanced Search for Legislation page, it appears that Representative Waters has sponsored 5 bills since 1973 that have been enacted. Three of them were enacted and signed into law and the ...
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Were there any voting districts with no votes for Obama?
For the purpose of this question, I'm going to assume that by "voting districts", you mean "precincts". You're correct that Romney received zero votes in a number of precincts - primarily urban ...
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Where do all the US votes go?
There is not a single clearinghouse for election results. By law, election returns are gathered by county, then reported to state levels. That is as far as it needs to go, because there is not a &...
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How does Rita Hart know that 22 votes weren't counted?
According to the brief filed as part of the procedures of the Federal Contested Election Act, Rita Hart believes that 22 ballots were improperly rejected when the ballots were counted.
You can find ...
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In the UK, what are the votes that started as voiced but passed into the divisions for more formal voting?
In Parliament, all votes start out as voiced. At the end of a debate, the speaker "puts the question" by stating the matter which will be decided. The MPs in the chamber then vote by ...
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Does Kamala Harris vote with Trump's position less often than Bernie Sanders?
Expanding on divibisan's identification of the source of the data which motivated this question, the percentages in the original post are correct when limited to votes in the 116th Congress.
Of the 39 ...
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Is there an easy way to directly compare voting records of two US Senators or Representatives?
As you mentioned, there are plenty of data sources to look at someone's voting record, but not much for comparing two.
There is an (inactive) GitHub repo which alleges to do exactly what you want. ...
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Does Kamala Harris vote with Trump's position less often than Bernie Sanders?
Without knowing the source of your image or how the numbers were compiled, it's impossible to say, exactly.
However, do note that GovTrack does rate Harris as the most "liberal" Senator in ...
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What is the fastest that an MP has broken a three-line whip?
In the vote on the Withdrawal Agreement Bill held eight days after the 2019 election, on the 20th of December 2019, newly elected Labour MP Charlotte Nichols broke a three-line whip and abstained on ...
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Do (district level) US House of Representatives elections record county on the ballot?
You would want to look at precinct votes for County X. In the United States, Precincts are the smallest possible political division, and are below county level government. They are important in that ...
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Is there an easy way to directly compare voting records of two US Senators or Representatives?
Check out https://usarep.org
You can compare votes of Senators and House Members apples to apples.
Currently, they are highlighting this for Presidential Primary candidates who are also Senators or ...
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Does the Polish parliament keep a compendium of its votes?
Official records published by parliament for current term.
http://www.sejm.gov.pl/sejm8.nsf/agent.xsp?symbol=posglos&NrKadencji=8
For previous term.
http://www.sejm.gov.pl/sejm8.nsf/agent.xsp?...
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Can the Trump Campaign use the voter data the Trump Administration received in 2017?
[While this question references the 2020 presidential election, it could apply to the 2024 presidential election, as well.]
Q: Can the Trump Campaign use the voter data the Trump Administration ...
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What is the fastest that an MP has broken a three-line whip?
At the 2017 general election held on June 8th, the Labour party's candidate Emma Dent-Coad replaced the Conservative Victoria Borwick as the MP for Kensington. 21 days later, on June 29th, she ...
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Where do all the US votes go?
In order to perform your own aggregates and analysis in real time just like the news networks you will need access to data during the period following the closing of the polls while ballots are being ...
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Where do all the US votes go?
In another answer CDJB linked to the FEC's report (PDF), which contains detailed information on elections for federal offices: President, Senate, and House.
However, it was released in December 2017, ...
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Where could I find the House of Representatives voting record for the Export Administration Act of 1979?
When did the House approve the Export Administration Act described here?
TO AGREE TO THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON S. 737, A BILL PROVIDING AUTHORITY TO REGULATE EXPORTS. (MOTION PASSED)., Sep 28, 1979.
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What differences exist between the platforms of the Socialistische Partij and the Partij voor de Dieren?
A good way of comparing this is by comparing voting records. partijgedrag.nl has a comparison matrix in which you select one party and compare similarity with other parties on a large number of ...
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