Logrolling is the trading of votes as commonly practiced in legislative bodies. One party or group in a legislature may want to pass a bill in which it is vitally interested. Another party or group may want to pass a different bill. Each group may have little or no interest in the other’s project. But each group votes for the other’s bill in order to obtain support for its own bill. For this reason, “You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours” is the common description of logrolling. A common case of logrolling arises in connection with approving appropriations for local projects.
