A motion to reconsider is what you're wanting. Someone can move to reconsider the previous motion (to buy the bench) as long as the action being reconsidered has not yet happened ( the bench hasn't been purchased yet). A majority vote is all that it takes. A person could also move that the vote to reconsider be by ballot and the vote to purchase the bench be by ballot. RONR (Robert's Rules of Order, Newly Revised) states that "A member who believes that a secret vote will give a truer expression of the assembly's will on a pending motion can move that the vote on the motion be taken by ballot".A ballot is nothing more that a slip of paper on which the voter marks his vote.
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