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Public whip treats abstentions as rebellion #6

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premasagar opened this issue Mar 15, 2013 · 0 comments

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premasagar commented Mar 15, 2013

e.g. this bill had 5 'both' votes, where an MP votes both 'aye' and 'no':
http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2013-02-05&number=151

Voting 'both' is effectively an abstention:
http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/boths.php

Should we ignore 'both' votes when it comes to deciding on rebellion?

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