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General Comments / Re: 2022 Congressional Leadership
« on: November 18, 2022, 11:12:15 AM »Can the speaker be elected with only plurality? Is the vote just a straight up and down on a proposed candidate or do the representatives vote for a specific person? Like, can a bunch of MAGAs abstaining through the selection to the democrats?Speaker requires a majority (218). The Speaker doesn't even have to be a member of the house. After the 2020 election, Republicans wondered how they could skew the vote so that Trump could be Speaker. I think Liz Cheney would be great in that role; Democrats would have to elect her with a few crossover votes from Republicans. But, since Republicans have no agenda they don't need a Speaker who can do the job, so I think they should consider Kanye.
I'm wondering how easy the system makes it British Tory levels of shenanigans.