Just curious about the roll call

[CajunBlazer]

7. There are a lots of parlemantary ways to skin that cat if you already know the results

One of those ways you saw in the nominating the VP candidate. Since there was one and only one VP candidate, the person at the podium requested that a motion be made to set aside convention rules and approve the nomination of Kaine as the VP candidate by a two thirds voice vote.

That motion was made and seconded and then, in the opinion of the chair was approved by a 2/3 voice vote. That cut out the possibility that someone on the floor would try to put Sanders' name in nomination for the VP position. It also avoided everyone having to listen to nomination and seconding speeches for Kaine and a state by state roll call vote - which some Sanders supporters would have surely tried to sabotage. This is the way it is usually done for the VP nomination because it has long been the practice that the Presidential candidate gets to pick his/her VP running mate.

However, they could have tried to do that with Presidential nomination as well, thought it probably would have caused a riot. The reason they allowed for Sanders' name to be put in nomination, to have nominating and seconding speeches for him, and to have a roll call vote was out of respect for Sanders and his supporters. In my humble opinion it was exactly the right thing to do under the circumstance.

I didn't watch that part of the Republican convention but they certainly didn't allow for Cruz's or Rubio's or Kasich's names to be put into nomination and I doubt if they had a roll call vote.