These records are maintained pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 552(a)(5) whereby "[e]ach agency having more than one member shall maintain and make available for public inspection a record of the final votes of each member in every agency proceeding."The records posted here are comprised of copies of each decision, order, rule or similar action of the Commission and the final votes of the Commissioners in each instance.
For each decision, order, rule or similar action of the Commission without a hand-written notation, each of the individual members of the Commission voting on the matter, as designated by the appropriate cover sheet preceding the matter, voted affirmatively. Any variations, such as Commissioners not participating, disapproving, or dissenting in part, are noted by hand-written notations in the upper right corner.
Final votes of SEC Commissioners in Calendar year 2016 are available at http://www.sec.gov/about/commission-votes.shtml.