Prevailing side of a vote calling for re-vote

[Guest Karin Hribar]

What happens to an issue/resolution that has been voted down, then immediately after, the prevailing side asks for a revote and THAT is voted down. Does this mean the issue/resolution is now "dead?" For how long?

[George Mervosh]

If a member on the the prevailing side of the defeated resolution moved to reconsider the vote (which might seem like asking for a re-vote), and the motion to reconsider is defeated, the resolution is still lost and may be made again/anew by any member at your next session.

[jstackpo]

The seemingly strange action of immediately moving to reconsider when the outcome of "reconsider" is basically known is to prevent someone from moving to reconsider later on in the meeting when a collection of friends of the original motion may have shown up. The newcomers could cause the orignial motion to be adopted after reconsideration was adopted.

The immediate reconsider "locks down" the first vote, until the next session, anyway.

It works equally well for adopted motions.

In many State legislatures where this happens all the time, the "next session" will be a year away.

[Chris Harrison]

Would the vote still be "locked down" if the original motion was defeated, Reconsidered, and then upon Reconsideration the motion was adopted? Since the motion was adopted upon Reconsideration could it then be Reconsidered (or the opposite way: adopted, Reconsidered, defeated)?

[jstackpo]

Presuming there were no "material" changes in the original motion during its second round of consideration, I'd say no, the (now adopted) motion cannot be reconsidered a second time. So does the book: p. 321, line 3-5.

Only one bite of the apple.

Maybe unanimous consent would allow it, but it seems highly unlikely that could be obtained.