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Okla. Stat. tit. 51, § 51-71: Procedure - Vote - Records

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  2. Title 51

The Senate, when sitting as a court of impeachment, shall have

power to prescribe and adopt such rules of procedure as it may deem

expedient for the orderly trial of the impeachment cases. When an

accused person has been placed upon trial and the case is ready to

be submitted to the Senators, sitting as members of a court of

impeachment, for their decision, the roll of the members shall be

called in open session upon each separate charge or count, contained

in the articles of impeachment. Each Senator, when his name is

called shall, if in his judgment the particular charge submitted has

been proven, vote "yea" otherwise he shall vote "nay" which yea and

nay vote shall be recorded in the journal of the court. If two-

thirds (2/3) of the Senators present shall vote yea upon any charge

or count contained in the article of impeachment, the accused shall

be adjudged guilty, and the judgment of the court shall be that he

be removed from office. The proceedings of the court of impeachment

shall be recorded by the clerk in a record kept for such purpose,

when any case is finally concluded the record shall be signed by the

presiding Justice or presiding officer, attested by the clerk and by

him filed in the office of the Secretary of State as a permanent

record.

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