Wow! A level of NC Cray-Cray I cannot even fathom! And I can fathom a lot!
Okay, hmm … you’re Republican legislator Mike Hager, you hate the renewables program, and your bill has just been defeated by an indisputable margin of five votes. What to do … what to do? Easy. You reintroduce the bill. And when it next comes up in committee, this time in the state senate? You have a voice vote - and have your finance committee chair, Republican Bill Rabon, refuse to count the actual votes. In a voice vote so close that both sides claim they would have won if the votes had been counted, Rabon declares that the bill has passed and runs off.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/2013/05/02/even-counting-votes-too-scientific-for-north-carolina/
I'm sorry, but my home state is getting just TOO weird now!
By the way, this means they've killed the renewable energy program.