Making laws
division vote
A standing headcount: members rise to be counted for and against. The totals are announced, but who stood where is still not recorded.
In full
When a voice vote is too close to call, the chair may order a division and members stand to be counted. It yields a number without names, an intermediate step between a voice vote and a recorded roll call. In the House, a member unsatisfied with a division can still demand the yeas and nays.
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