“I am puzzled about the change in the number of lawmakers who voted ‘Yes’ to House Bill No. 9349 or the proposed Absolute Divorce Act from 126 to 131.
They have already recorded the initial number of affirmative votes, and this has been reported and announced in the plenary.
But now they are saying that there was an error in the counting. How did that happen?
Was the adjustment made to address statements that the motion to approve HBN 9349 was “lost” when the body failed to get the majority votes of the members who were present during last Tuesday’s session? In my personal assessment, I believe that the approval of the divorce bill was lost when it failed to get the majority approval of the lawmakers present when it was put to a vote. For me, as we speak, HBN 9349 has not been approved on third and final reading.
Likewise, I would like to be clarified: Is correcting the number of votes outside of the session allowed under House Rules? Because if making errors in the counting of votes is a ‘regular’ thing, how then can we be assured now sure that all the previous votes counted in relation to other measures were correct?
The Bench Files 
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