House Democrats Set to Approve Proxy Voting Amid Pandemic
- Undoing 200 years of precedent sparks GOP anger, warnings
- Low-tech remote plan allows one member to carry up to 10 votes
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democrats are set to push aside more than 200 years of House precedent with a Friday vote to let lawmakers serve as proxies for colleagues quarantined or otherwise stuck at home by the coronavirus pandemic.
This low-tech version of remote voting is the Democrats’ temporary answer to health and travel concerns raised by dozens of lawmakers. It would alter House rules to let individual members to cast votes on behalf of as many as 10 colleagues.