They were trying to eliminate a talking point for the Republicans, who, of course, can’t take a shit without invoking God to make sure everything comes out all right, and base their policies on a book that was written 2000 years ago. But God creates lots of warm fuzzies for the brain dead crowd. Oops. Shouldn’t have said that. Gonna get Dems in trouble.
It was patently obvious what the vote was and wasn’t and why they were doing it. Pandering.
Give me a break. This is politics.
In any case, you could hear in the background someone advising him that he had to call the vote, and that’s the way it was unless someone appealed it. Did anyone appeal it? If not, then it is a legal vote. That is the power of the Chair. Things like that happen all the time in legislatures all over the world. Although, in legislatures, someone can call for a count.