United Nations General Assembly
Votes on substantive matters in the United Nations General Assembly are always recorded; the generally-accepted method of holding a recorded vote is by having each member nation, called upon in English alphabetical order, state "Yes", "No", or "Abstention", though variants are accepted.
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