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Democratic colleagues have been vocal, complaining about the maneuver that republicans used to pass this bill, into law. but, isn't it rather hypocritical to complain about a voting procedure since you and your fellow democrats fled the state to avoid a vote? >> caller: well, republicans complained about that and we complained about their procedural antics and there is enough blame to go around, and the fact of the matter is, rights, longstanding rights were stripped from workers and many people in wisconsin are upset about that. >> gregg: are you upset about the petitions drive to have you re...

Different procedure. the gentleman will observe regular order and sit down! i will not! the gentleman will skit! the gentleman is correct in sitting! >> jon: there you go. the bill did not go through. and today lawmakers proved this fight is far from over. laura ingle with me now. still going on, huh, laura? >> it is. the drama continues. most bills pass in the house of representatives with a majority vote. but democrats were concerned that trying to pass the 9/11 health bill that way could allow republicans to change the legislation. >> democrats resorted to a voting procedure that blocked mo...

As they ee fit. here's an example of how that works. oo iks votes a resident could vote once for six different candidates. three times for two candidates, or vote 6 times for just one candidate. this method was used for the first time on june 15th to elect port chester's six board of trustees. but the compromise was costly. the town pent almost $300,000 educating residents on the new voting procedure. and despite efforts to target hispanics rotor turnouts was only marginally impacted. >> we can't recover. it's money we flushed basically. i would have rather had even us use streets and sidewalk...

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