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Here are the final vote results on ROLL CALL 412 (Amash of Michigan Amendment No. 100) from the House website.

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll412.xml

The most interesting part is that the difference in votes is exactly equal to the number of individuals marked as "not voting".

As the guy said at the end of the film Contact, "that is interesting, isn't it?"

Keith Ellison: "For the government to just collect people's data without any sense of that individual warrants or merits and investigation of some kind is a problem. I am pretty disappointed we didn't pass it, but I am pretty impressed with how well we did. This issue is not over. There will be more voters and there will be more bills. I feel confident we can perhaps prevail."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/25/narrow-defeat-ns...

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