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Subject: up-and-down vote gen. Finally, what especially grated on the opponents was the secrecy of the negotiations. The draft agreements were not open to public scrutiny, and the few outsiders who were allowed access to them were prohibited from divulging the contents. The stated goal was to facilitate negotiations. As Senator Elizabeth Warren put it, that got it exactly backwards. If transparency would make it harder to sell the final product to the public, it raises serious questions about the desirability of the treaty.It would have made a lot of sense to subject the final text of trade agreements to an up-and-down vote without allowing amendments. But that could have been done while making draft tests public. The time for secrecy had past, if it ever existed.
====================================================== В этом отрывке неясны два момента.
1) Как передать up-and-down vote? В Википедии есть статья с похожим названием - Up or down vote. Ориентируясь на нее, можно было бы, как мне думается, взять вариант "Голосование по существу".
2) Смущает словосочетание draft tests. Похоже на опечатку, не правда ли?
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