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5. One of the standard tie-breaking methods

Reply to MelissaB (Original post)

Mon May 21, 2012, 05:42 PM

May 2012

I've also seen ties broken by a high card draw from a deck of cards. This usually happens in smaller election districts where the vote tabulations can be easily checked, and the race is a true deadlock.

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