[kingu]

New Mexico has the best system for this: By state law, when a race is tied the candidates play a hand of Five-Card Stud to determine the winner.

Playing Five-Card Stud without chips, or indeed, just a single hand, is a lot like betting on the outcome of solitaire. You might win, you might lose, but either way, it is boring as hell.

[Fabozz]

Heh, well it's not intended to be entertainment, just a good replacement for flipping a coin. But on the other hand, imagine if each candidate got a number of chips equal to the number of votes they received, and had to play Texas Hold'Em until there was only one person left. Now that's election reform I could get behind!