I notice the article author felt the need to provide commentary on NC legislative rules, particularly its prohibition on changing a cast vote if doing so alters the result. What is so bizarre about that? It is designed to keep the more pathetic forms of finger-in-the-wind from happening. Otherwise you'd have representatives voting one way, then realizing this might prove embarrassing or get them in trouble with public opinion, and changing their vote. You can't let that derail a legislative process, not on a bill that has already been passed or defeated.
