Passed, blocked, or buried

Passed

The easiest record to keep and the least interesting. There is a roll call, the roll call is public, and the change is in the statute. We record it, we link the vote, we move on.

Voted down

Also easy: there is a roll call and a margin. What the record adds is who — because a citizen reading their own representative's page should see that the repair bill lost by four votes and theirs was one of them.

Never allowed a vote

This is the category the movement exists to surface.

A bill can die without anybody voting against it. It can be held in committee and never scheduled. It can be denied a rule. It can be left off the calendar until the session ends. It can be swallowed into a package and stripped in conference. In every one of those cases the outcome is identical to a defeat, and the record is blank — no roll call, no names, nothing for a journalist to cite or a citizen to be angry about.

Treating a blank as nothing happened is precisely the deadlock this movement was built against: the absence of evidence is manufactured, and then the absence is used to end the conversation.

So we record it as an event:

• who held it,
• at what stage — committee, rule, calendar, conference,
• by what mechanism,
• and what the source is for each of those.

The weight this carries

Blocking a repair from advancing is weighted far more heavily in the Llama Award than any single floor vote — by design. A floor vote is one voice among hundreds. Keeping a bill off the floor is one person deciding for everyone, in a room, without a record.