Bass seeks to ban ghost voting

The leader of the California State Assembly has warned legislators that they may not cast "ghost votes" on bills when they are not in the chamber. S.F. Chronicle.

Speaker Karen Bass, D-Baldwin Vista (Los Angeles County), told Democratic lawmakers at a caucus Tuesday that they may cast electronic votes for other members only when they are present on the Assembly chamber's green carpet but simply away from their desks.

"We are going to enforce the existing policy, which means that there will be no voting when a member is off the floor," Bass said in an interview later Tuesday.