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House Roll Call 1409, 95th Congress · September 19, 1978

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS, AS AMENDED, S. 703, THE BILL IMPROVING THE ADMINISTRATION AND OPERATION OF THE OVERSEAS CITIZEN VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1975 AND THE FEDERAL VOTING ASSISTANCE ACT OF 1955.

326 yea · 78 nay28 not voting or present
Democrat222 yea · 39 nay
Republican101 yea · 39 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 703 ↗

An Act to improve the administration and operation of the Overseas Citizens Voting Rights Act of 1975, and for other purposes.

Policy area: Government Operations and Politics — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.

How this vote is scored

Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.

  • Voting & ElectionsA yea counts toward “Expand access”

    model(0.95): A yes improves voting administration for overseas citizens, expanding voter access.

    Tagged by: keyword:voting rights

    Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (326)

Nay (78)

Not voting or present (28)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.