{"id":444177,"date":"2024-10-21T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/?post_type=newspack_nl_cpt&p=444177"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:23:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T16:23:27","slug":"california-legislature-missed-votes","status":"publish","type":"newspack_nl_cpt","link":"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/_es\/newsletter\/california-legislature-missed-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"Por qu\u00e9 los legisladores de California no acuden a las votaciones y por qu\u00e9 es importante"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An “aye” vote on a legislator\u2019s desk on the Assembly floor at the state Capitol in Sacramento on Aug. 17, 2023. Photo by Semantha Norris, CalMatters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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For the last five years, Democrats have had supermajorities in both legislative chambers \u2014 leading to \u201cyes\u201d votes most of the time<\/a>. Sometimes, however, a legislator does not vote, either due to an absence or an abstention. But because both are categorized the same way \u2014 as \u201cNo Vote Recorded\u201d \u2014 it\u2019s difficult for constituents to discern if legislators are truly serving their needs<\/a>, escribe el reportero de CalMatters Capitol Sameea Kamal<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year, seven legislators missed more than a quarter of their opportunities to vote. All are in the Assembly \u2014 four Democrats (Sabrina Cervantes<\/a> of Corona, Liz Ortega<\/a> de Hayward, Luz Rivas<\/a> of Arleta and Chris Holden<\/a> of Pasadena) and three Republicans (David Mathis<\/a> of Visalia, Megan Dahle<\/a> de Redding y proyecto de ley<\/a> of Corona). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most were absent due to medical reasons: Dahle, for example, missed 74 days after a stroke she suffered in January. Cervantes, who missed more votes than any other legislator, had excused absences due to a death in her family and a bout with COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But other times the reasons are unclear, so constituents don\u2019t know if their legislators did not vote because they disagreed with the bill but want to remain in good standing with their colleagues; they\u2019re waiting for the bill to be amended; or they\u2019re just out sick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n