There’s actually video of ghost voting in action.  Check it out.

From the Statesman:

The Texas House of Representatives is spending more than $100,000 on a new fingerprint-based voting system, but it won’t necessarily stop lawmakers from routinely breaking their own rules by casting votes for each other.

House members now vote electronically from machines installed on top of their desks. While House rules say it’s a violation to reach over and cast a yea or nay for absent colleagues, the controversial practice of “ghost voting” is widespread.

A YouTube video last year of members voting multiple times for other lawmakers has drawn more than a million hits, and a Travis County Grand Jury called on House Speaker Tom Craddick, R-Midland, to start enforcing the chamber’s own rules against it.

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