Under those circumstances, the reason I made the offer to vacate, the request for the unanimous consent to vacate, is because you can't verify it, and I have a list here in front of me. It may or may not be accurate. The machines are obviously not functioning as we would want them to do, so my suggestion is the way to fix that is to vacate the vote. The machines have to be taken down.
Steny Hoyer: “Under those circumstances, the reason I made the offer to vacate, the request for the unanimous consent to vacate, is…”
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Addressing issues with voting machine functionality and the need to vacate a vote.
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