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Monday, October 03, 2005
Law - Kentucky General Assembly roll calls to be available online
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports today:
The roll call votes of Kentucky state lawmakers appear to be finally headed to the Internet.The Indiana General Assembly's roll call votes have been available online for some time. In recent years the handwritten tally-sheets of House and Senate committee votes have been added.The General Assembly's top legislative leaders are scheduled to vote Wednesday to allow the Legislative Research Commission to post the votes on its Web site beginning in January. * * *
The commission's Web site contains information about the legislature, including the full text of all bills proposed and passed. But roll call votes have only been available on paper through the commission's Frankfort office.
If citizens wanted a roll call vote, it had to be mailed, faxed or picked up at the Frankfort office. * * *
"This is a big victory for citizen activists and the voters of Kentucky," said Caleb Brown, director of KentuckyVotes.org. * * *
"If this were 1993, when the Internet was totally new, is one thing.
"But this type of battle shouldn't have been fought in 2005, when you can go to a Web site and dig up baseball scores from 45 years ago or go online ... and follow a baseball game pitch by pitch."
Posted by Marcia Oddi on October 3, 2005 07:21 AM
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