roll calls
Name-by-name headcounts
Roll calls are events where names are read aloud from a list to check attendance or record votes.
Teachers take roll call at the start of class; legislators answer roll calls to register their positions on bills.
The term extends to any systematic accounting of who is present: The roll call of victims took hours to complete.
- quorumMinimum for valid proceedings
- minutesSixty-second intervals
- checkOrder to pay
- musterAssemble for inspection
- attendanceRecord of who's present
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- conventionsconvention, conventions, delegates, conference, attendee
- Congresssenator, representative, senators, House, bill
- Civil War recordsmilitary records, battle maps, service records, Union Army, casualty lists
- Congressional Recordproceedings, debates, official transcript, transcripts, remarks
- parliamentary recordscommittee report, parliamentary debates, bill, proceedings, minutes
- UN AssemblyGeneral Assembly, resolutions, delegates, delegations, member states
roll callssecret ballots
Concealed electoral choices
show of hands · head counts · voice votes · estimation · sign-in sheets
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