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Utah House revotes HR 1 after electronic-vote glitch; recesses to receive governor
Summary
After an electronic-voting discrepancy, the Utah House ordered a revote of House Resolution 1 (originally announced 63-10), recorded the revote as 57-13 and passed a motion to recess and then resolve into a joint convention to hear the governor's State of the State address.
The Utah House of Representatives handled several procedural actions before and after the governor's address, including a contested recording of House Resolution 1 and motions to recess and to resolve into a joint convention.
Clerks initially announced that House Resolution 1 had "received 63 affirmative votes, 10 negative votes" and would be signed by the speaker. Representative Greenside told the presiding officer their voting button was not working and asked that their vote be recorded; the floor later identified an apparent tally discrepancy because Representatives Bodley and Howard had not voted, prompting the presiding officer to order a revote "because this is run off a computer" and a computer glitch had been identified.
The revote on HR 1 was recorded as 57 affirmative and 13 negative votes; the presiding officer announced HR 1 had passed and would be signed by the speaker in the presence of the House. Floor commentary included an aside that "some arm twisting is going on," recorded during a point-of-order exchange; no formal finding or sanction on that remark appears in the transcript.
Shortly afterward, the House recessed until 6:10 p.m. to allow press and staff to set up for the governor's address. On reconvening, Representative Howard moved that the House resolve into a joint convention to hear the governor; the motion passed and senators were welcomed into the chamber. After the governor's address, Senator Kerry Peterson moved that the complete text of the message be printed in the Senate Journal (and put in the House journal); the motion carried. Finally, a motion to dissolve the joint convention carried and the bodies returned to their separate business.
Quotes recorded on the floor include Representative Greenside saying, "My voting block button is not working," and the presiding officer stating a revote was required "for the sake of our rules" because of a computer error. The transcript does not record individual names for every yes/no vote on HR 1 in the electronic tally reported on the floor.
