Breaking Exclusive: President Trump Tells Gen. Flynn He Would Serve as House Speaker
(www.westernjournal.com)
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bad math.
voting "present" creates a THIRD CANDIDATE type of vote at 50% , two "present" votes are equal to one vote for "anyone else"
All Democrats are expected to vote for incoming House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) for Speaker in initial full vote participation by Democrats, not "present"
in 1849 and 1856, the House agreed to a resolution that allowed a Speaker to be elected by a plurality. That move was something of a last resort, though, and came after 59 and 129 failed ballots. A majority of the whole House would need to agree to that resolution, and NO PROXY REMOTE VOTING is allowed , even under "covid emergency newly epired house rules". Voting for this one thing will have to be in person, and fleeing and hiding (like Democrats do sometimes in recent years toi break quorum) results in physical arrest and forced attendance.
They need to drain the swamp of these RINOS. Especially all the RINO female politicians.
The speaker is elected by a majority of members voting “for a person by name.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/what-happens-if-some-house-members-start-voting-present/
There are currently 434 active Members of the House, 218 is a majority, if all members vote for someone by name.
If only 425 vote for a person by name and 9 do not vote at all or do not vote by name, meaning they vote present, 214 is a majority. That’s why the six remaining Republican holdouts continue to vote for someone by name, to not reduce the threshold.