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A recorded vote may be taken in one of three different ways. One is electronically. Members use a personal identification card to record their votes at 46 voting stations in the chamber. Votes are usually held in this way. A second mode of recorded vote is by teller. Members hand in colored cards to indicate their votes: green for "yea", red for "nay", and orange for "present" (i.e., to abstain). Teller votes are normally held only when electronic voting breaks down. Finally, the House may conduct a [[roll call vote]]. The Clerk reads the list of members of the House, each of whom announces their vote when their name is called. This procedure is only used rarely (and usually for ceremonial occasions, such as for the election of a speaker) because of the time consumed by calling over four hundred names.<ref name=gpovote/> | A recorded vote may be taken in one of three different ways. One is electronically. Members use a personal identification card to record their votes at 46 voting stations in the chamber. Votes are usually held in this way. A second mode of recorded vote is by teller. Members hand in colored cards to indicate their votes: green for "yea", red for "nay", and orange for "present" (i.e., to abstain). Teller votes are normally held only when electronic voting breaks down. Finally, the House may conduct a [[roll call vote]]. The Clerk reads the list of members of the House, each of whom announces their vote when their name is called. This procedure is only used rarely (and usually for ceremonial occasions, such as for the election of a speaker) because of the time consumed by calling over four hundred names.<ref name=gpovote/> | ||
Voting traditionally lasts for, at most, fifteen minutes, but it may be extended if the leadership needs to "whip" more members into alignment.<ref name=gpovote/> The 2003 vote on the prescription drug benefit was open for three hours, from 3:00 to 6:00 a.m., to receive four additional votes, three of which were necessary to pass the legislation.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/under-the-influence |title=Under the Influence |last1=Singer |first1=Michelle |date=March 29, 2007 |website=[[CBS News]] |access-date=January 12, 2015 |archive-date=January 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114194437/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/under-the-influence/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The 2005 vote on the [[Central American Free Trade Agreement]] was open for one hour, from 11:00 p.m. to midnight.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/07/28/house.cafta/ |title=House narrowly approves CAFTA |last1=Henry |first1=Ed |last2=Barrett |first2=Ted |date=July 28, 2005 |website= | Voting traditionally lasts for, at most, fifteen minutes, but it may be extended if the leadership needs to "whip" more members into alignment.<ref name=gpovote/> The 2003 vote on the prescription drug benefit was open for three hours, from 3:00 to 6:00 a.m., to receive four additional votes, three of which were necessary to pass the legislation.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/under-the-influence |title=Under the Influence |last1=Singer |first1=Michelle |date=March 29, 2007 |website=[[CBS News]] |access-date=January 12, 2015 |archive-date=January 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114194437/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/under-the-influence/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The 2005 vote on the [[Central American Free Trade Agreement]] was open for one hour, from 11:00 p.m. to midnight.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/07/28/house.cafta/ |title=House narrowly approves CAFTA |last1=Henry |first1=Ed |last2=Barrett |first2=Ted |date=July 28, 2005 |website=CNN |access-date=January 12, 2015 |archive-date=January 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114194454/http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/07/28/house.cafta/ |url-status=live }}</ref> An October 2005 vote on facilitating refinery construction was kept open for forty minutes.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/refinery-bill-passes-amid-partisan-split/ |title=Refinery Bill Passes Amid Partisan Split |date=October 8, 2005 |website=[[Fox News]] |agency=Associated Press |access-date=January 12, 2015 |archive-date=February 28, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150228090914/http://www.foxnews.com/story/2005/10/08/refinery-bill-passes-amid-partisan-split/ |url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
Presiding officers may vote like other members. They may not, however, vote twice in the event of a tie; rather, a tie vote defeats the motion.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sidlow |first1=Edward |last2=Henschen |first2=Beth |date=2009 |title=America at Odds, Alternate Edition |edition=6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QGlKrQ78UEsC&pg=PA246 |location=Belmont, California |publisher=Wadsworth Cengage Learning |page=246 |isbn=978-0-495-50370-5 |access-date=January 10, 2015 |archive-date=January 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114194448/https://books.google.com/books?id=QGlKrQ78UEsC&pg=PA246 |url-status=live }}</ref> | Presiding officers may vote like other members. They may not, however, vote twice in the event of a tie; rather, a tie vote defeats the motion.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sidlow |first1=Edward |last2=Henschen |first2=Beth |date=2009 |title=America at Odds, Alternate Edition |edition=6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QGlKrQ78UEsC&pg=PA246 |location=Belmont, California |publisher=Wadsworth Cengage Learning |page=246 |isbn=978-0-495-50370-5 |access-date=January 10, 2015 |archive-date=January 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114194448/https://books.google.com/books?id=QGlKrQ78UEsC&pg=PA246 |url-status=live }}</ref> | ||