The House is not required to make their votes in committee open to the public. Transparency advocacy group act_on_mass is leading a campaign to change the rules:
In the November election, Massachusetts voters in 20 House districts will tell their representatives whether or not they want lawmakers' committee votes to be made public.
who voted"no" in committee, with an anonymized total of affirmative and withheld votes. Some suggest that making legislators' work more public would provide fodder to political opponents during campaigns.Voters in 20 out of 160 House districts will see the transparency question on the ballot, according to Act on Mass.
Affirmative votes on this ballot question"can be a really great excuse for them to do the right thing if they're up against the speaker or House leadership or their colleagues who don't want them to vote for this amendment," Erin Leahy, executive director of Act on Mass, told the State House News Service."Having this in their back pocket is kind of a shield.
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