Talk:Casting vote

There is no mention in this article on whether a casting vote is the vote of a person who does not normally vote unless there is a tied vote, or whether a casting vote represent and additional (2nd vote) cast by the chair in order to break a tie.

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By virtue of the Vice President's casting vote, when the Senate as elected is equally divided between two parties, the Vice President's party automatically becomes the official majority party in the Senate.

Well, now, in my understanding, it is not quite "automatic". They do still have to vote on it. The outcome of the vote is generally a foregone conclusion, but the existing phrasing seems a little misleading. --Trovatore (talk) 21:56, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Speaker is Most Senior member of the Majority Party

I read somewhere that the "Speaker of the US Congress is Most Senior Member of the Majority Party" and doesn't have to be even-handed or bi-partisan at all. CMIIAW. Tabletop (talk) 11:59, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Examples

Should this page not mention the example of Charles Haughey being elected Taoiseach of the 20th Government of Ireland by the Dáil on 10 march 1987 with the casting vote of the Ceann Comhairle, after a 82-82 tied vote?----Bancki (talk) 19:17, 13 September 2014 (UTC)

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US VP and rarity

the Vice President's casting vote has become increasingly rare throughout American history as the size of the Senate has grown from 26 to 100 and ties have become less probable

While it's fair to say that they were more common when the Senate was smaller, I don't think it's accurate to say it is necessarily less probable. It's also true that in those days, the country was younger and had less stability. Dick Cheney's 8 tie breaking votes puts him in the top 12 of vice presidents. And Mike Pence has made 6 such votes within the course of a single year, which if panned out to an 8 year double term, would put him well at the top. Size of Senate seems to have little to do with it. See more at List of tie-breaking votes cast by vice presidents of the United States. Keith D. Tyler ¶ 22:46, 6 January 2018 (UTC)