viva voce vote
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Next day by an overwhelming viva voce vote the full Chamber adopted a resolution condemning the Farm Board's policies.
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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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A very few voices, the viva voce vote having been called for: "Aye."
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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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The amendment of Mr. Coalter was rejected 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 Chittenden, L. E. (Lucius Eugene)
