Voting methods in deliberative assemblies
Deliberative assemblies – bodies that use parliamentary procedure to arrive at decisions – use several methods of voting on motions (formal proposal by a member or members of a deliberative assembly that the assembly take certain action). The regular methods of voting in such bodies are a voice vote, a rising vote, and a show of hands. Additional forms of voting include a recorded vote and balloting. The assembly could decide on the voting method by adopting a motion on it. Legislatures may have their own voting methods.
Regular methods
Voice vote
Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised (RONR) states that a voice vote (viva voce) is the usual method of voting on any motion that does not require more than a majority vote for its adoption. It is considered the simplest and quickest of voting methods used by deliberative assemblies. The presiding officer or chair of the assembly will put the question to the assembly, asking first for those in favor of the motion to indicate so verbally ("aye" or "yes"), and then ask those opposed to the motion to indicate so verbally ("no"). The chair will then estimate which side had more members.
Show of Hands
Show of Hands are an English acoustic roots and folk duo comprising singer-songwriter Steve Knightley and multi-instrumentalist Phil Beer. In recent years, they have been accompanied on tour and in the studio by double-bassist Miranda Sykes.
History
1980s
The duo formed in 1986. Nonetheless, having known each other since 1972, they had performed before hand, for example Knightley's contribution to Beer's first live album with Paul Downes, Live in Concept (1980), and Beer's role in Knightley's pub rock bands of the 1980s, Short Stories, The Cheats and Total Strangers, when members of those bands could not appear. This is in addition to Knightley joining Beer and Downe's early 1980s band Arizona Smoke Revue. Beer joined The Albion Band in 1984, this halting collaborations between the two for a while. Nonetheless, Beer found some free time in 1987 and suggested to Knightley they form a duo. For the recording their first album, 1987's Show of Hands, they set up their own recording studio, known as Catsley Home. The album was recorded in January 1987 to coincide with their first tour, and was sold on the tour as a cassette. The tour and release brought the band local attention, and they followed it with Tall Ships in 1990, centred around an expanded song suite, "Tall Ships", which Knightley had written prior and used with the duo.
Show of Hands (1987 album)
Show of Hands is the debut album by English folk duo Show of Hands. The duo formed when Phil Beer took a break from folk rock band The Albion Band, requesting to Steve Knightley that they record a cassette together in Knightley's garage. Knightley, who had recently returned to the duo's native Devon after departing London, agreed, and the duo recorded the album together in January 1987 in Catsley Home, described by Knightley as an outbuilding in the remotest part of Dorset. The album contains twelve compositions, mostly songs by Knightley.
The duo self-released the album in early 1987 on cassette only. It was recorded and released to coincide with their first tour, and was only sold from the duo's concerts. The duo halted their time together as Beer returned The Albion Band, but returned in 1990 with Tall Ships, an album centered around its title track which is a twenty-two minute adaption of the much shorter song that opens Show of Hands. Both albums, along with Out for the Count (1991), were out of print by 1995, so the duo released the compilation Backlog 1987–1991 (1995) to compile highlights from the three albums. Six songs from Show of Hands feature on the compilation.
Podcasts:
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ALBUMS
- Wake the Union released: 2012
- Backlog 2 released: 2011
- Covers 2 released: 2010
- Arrogance Ignorance and Greed released: 2009
- Live at Exeter Phoenix Saturday 8th December 2007 released: 2008
- Roots: The Best of Show of Hands released: 2007
- Witness released: 2006
- As You Were: Live on Tour Autumn 2004 released: 2005
- Country Life released: 2003
- The Path released: 2003
- Cold Cuts released: 2002
- Cold Frontier released: 2001
- Show of Hands released: 2000
- Folk Music released: 1998
- Dark Fields released: 1997
- Lie of the Land released: 1995
- Beat About the Bush released: 1994
- Live at the Royal Albert Hall - 24 March 1996 released:
- Live released:
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ALBUMS
- Show of Hands released: 1989
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Arrogance Ignorance And Greed
by: Show Of HandsNow I might look familiar
but inside I'm not the same
and if you can't see beneath
you're not to blame
cause you've still the fear what i became
and i'm not denying
that you were flying
ah the man i was
he would have dragged you down
the man i was
he would have seized your crown
so all these years have taught me
there is always a second chance
its forgiveness that i seek
and not romance
im only stretching out these hands
cause when danger found you
with wild wolves around you
oh the man i was he would have gone to ground
you were in your tidal wave
with no mast or mainstay
and the man i was
he would have let you down
the man i was
he would have watched you drown
when darkness fell with storms around
the main i was just played the clown
where drinking in some bar in town
i was no tender stanger
no desert ranger
no sturdy farmer
no knight in armour
i played the clown
i pulled you down
i watched you drown
i seized your drown
the man i was
the man i was
its over now it breaks my heart because
the man you see is not the man I was
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