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Prior to 1839, the House elected its speaker by paper ballot, but since, on all but three occasions, has done so by roll call vote. [1] A majority of votes cast (as opposed to a majority of the full membership of the House) is necessary to elect a speaker.
The reading clerk of the United States House of Representatives reads bills, motions, and other papers before the House and keeps track of changes to legislation made on the floor. During the vote for Speaker at the beginning of each Congress , or when the electronic voting system fails, the clerk calls the roll of members for a recorded vote .
The House elects its speaker at the beginning of a new Congress (i.e. biennially, after Election Day) or when a speaker dies, resigns, or is removed from the position intra-term. Since 1839, the House has elected speakers by roll call vote. [16]
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The U.S. House of Representatives taking a roll-call vote to elect its speaker for the 112th Congress, as broadcast by C-SPAN. In 1869, Thomas Edison filed for a patent on the first electric vote recorder, and demonstrated the system to the United States Congress. [24] The first proposal for automated voting in Congress was made in 1886. [24]
If no candidate wins a majority of the "votes cast for a person by name," then the roll call is repeated until a speaker is elected. [2] Multiple roll calls have been necessary only 15 times since 1789; and, at the time, not since 1923 (68th Congress), when a closely divided House needed 9 ballots to elect Frederick H. Gillett speaker. [4]