Thomas Joseph Tauke on Voting & Elections

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Voting & Elections3 votes

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5 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Voting & Elections. 3 of them counted toward the score above: 3 toward “Expand access” and 0 toward “Restrict access”.

The other 2 did not count: 1 was a roll call whose direction on this issue could not be read confidently — mostly procedural motions — and 1 was one they did not cast a yea or nay on. They are listed below anyway, marked as not scored, because a filtered list of votes is not a voting record.

Date	What was voted on	Voted	Counted as
1981-10-05	TO PASS H.R. 3112, A BILL TO EXTEND KEY ENFORCEMENT PROVISIONS OF THE 1965 VOTING RIGHTS ACT. (MOTION AGREED TO)H.R. 3112 · 97th Congress	Yea	Expand access
1981-10-05	TO AMEND H.R. 3112, BY ELIMINATING PROVISIONS IN THE 1965 VOTING RIGHTS ACT REQUIRING CERTAIN AREAS OF THE COUNTRY TO PROVIDE BILINGUAL ELECTION MATERIALS. (MOTION FAILED)H.R. 3112 · 97th Congress	Nay	Expand access
1981-10-05	TO AMEND H.R. 3112, BY ALLOWING A STATE COVERED BY THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT TO BAIL OUT FROM COVERAGE IF TWO-THIRDS OF ITS COUNTIES ARE ELIGIBLE TO BAIL OUT. (MOTION FAILED)H.R. 3112 · 97th Congress	Nay	Expand access
1981-10-05	TO AMEND H.R. 3112, BY ELIMINATING A PROVISION THAT MADE THE SIGNING OF A CONSENT DECREE IN A VOTING RIGHTS LAWSUIT A BAR TO BAILING OUT FROM COVERAGE OF THE ACT IF THE CONSENT DECREE WERE SIGNED WITHIN 10 YEARS OF A JURISDICTION'S PETITION TO BAIL OUT. (MOTION FAILED)H.R. 3112 · 97th Congress	Did not vote	Not a yea/nay
1981-10-05	TO RESOLVE INTO THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE TO CONSIDER H.R. 3112, THE LEGISLATION FOR EXTENDING ENFORCEMENT PROVISIONS OF THE 1965 VOTING RIGHTS ACT. (MOTION AGREED TO)H.R. 3112 · 97th Congress	Did not vote	Direction not readable

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