viva voce vote
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Mr. Green confidently put the question to a viva voce vote, announced that Mr. McDonough had been counted out.
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A very few voices, the viva voce vote having been called for: "Aye."
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This resolution, the only one on which radicals and conservatives were in complete agreement, was adopted by a rousing viva voce vote on the convention floor.
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When a viva voce vote showed most of the electors for Lewis Morris, whom Governor Cosby had deposed as Chief Justice of New York's Supreme Court, the Sheriff demanded a poll.
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The motion to lay on the table passed in the affirmative by a viva voce vote.
From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by L. E. (Lucius Eugene) Chittenden
