This kind of voting allows a senator to cast a vote in committee for an absent senator
The convention's grand committee reported his motion, with some ... 
adopted the mixed representation plan giving states equal votes in the Senate 
within a .... Long terms would control turnover in the legislature, allow senators to 
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