Today I stumbled upon a somewhat interesting database tool in twitter that gathers all voting behavior of the Members of the European Parliament since May 8, 2008. It’s called EP Vote and lets you discover all votes according to the country, political groups and MEPs themselves. So far, 944 MEPs, 700 texts voted and 423,059 votes have been inserted into the database. And EP Vote doesn’t leave you along with this huge amount of numbers. One of the most interesting charts is a list of MEPs that haven’t been that diverse in their voting performance. Let’s take for instance  the one they call whistleblower, Mr. Paul van Buitenen (Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance) who, if you believe the data, abstained in 98 % of the votes.  The only times he could decide to vote in favour or against something was in some few matters of budgetary control. ;)

Link: www.epvote.eu