High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Deliberative assemblies - bodies that use parliamentary procedure to arrive at decisions - use several methods of voting on motions (formal proposal by a member or members of a deliberative assembly that the assembly take certain action).Robert's Rules of Order states that a voice vote (viva voce) is the regular method of voting on any motion that does not require more than a majority vote for its adoption.A simple rising vote (in which the number of members voting on each side are counted) is used principally in cases in which the chair believes a voice vote has been taken with an inconclusive result, or upon a motion to divide the assembly.