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Tied Virginia House race to be decided by drawing name out of a bowl
NBC News ^ | December 21, 2017 | Dartunorro Clark

Posted on 12/21/2017 12:05:31 PM PST by C19fan

Grab your popcorn.

The Virginia Board of Elections announced on Thursday it would pick the winner of a closely-watched state House of Delegates race, in which the Democrat and the Republican each has 11,608 votes, using slips of paper placed in film canisters.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: drawinglots; va2017; vageneralassembly
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To: C19fan

How about a game of rock paper scissors?


21 posted on 12/21/2017 12:30:24 PM PST by detective
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To: C19fan

Dems will find a way to cheat.


22 posted on 12/21/2017 12:33:14 PM PST by Fido969 (In!)
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To: Fido969

Loser can ask for a recount.


23 posted on 12/21/2017 12:33:55 PM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: Fido969

>>Dems will find a way to cheat.
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The Dems will take out the Pub name and enter the Dem name twice.


24 posted on 12/21/2017 12:35:06 PM PST by Kalamata
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To: C19fan
Tied Virginia House race to be decided by drawing name out of a bowl

What's the betting line that the dems try to rig this drawing?

25 posted on 12/21/2017 12:35:50 PM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Uranium One = BRIBERY and TREASON - HANG THEM ALL!!!!)
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To: detective
”How about a game of rock paper scissors?”

Even better, how about rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock?

26 posted on 12/21/2017 12:38:00 PM PST by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: Fido969
Actually, they'll be fine with it.

As long as the Dem name is drawn.

If not, they'll take it to the Supreme Court, if necessary.

27 posted on 12/21/2017 12:42:46 PM PST by daler
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To: Salvavida

In Catron County New Mexico if there is a tie they draw for high card.


28 posted on 12/21/2017 12:56:20 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: C19fan

I wonder how many redos of the draw will be permitted if the dem doesn’t win the first time.


29 posted on 12/21/2017 1:03:18 PM PST by sphinx
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To: C19fan

In Cave Creek, AZ outside of Phx a tied race is decided by cutting the cards. High card wins.


30 posted on 12/21/2017 1:12:02 PM PST by Az Joe (Gloria in excelsis Deo)
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To: C19fan

This has to be the stupidest way to decide an election. The event should be televised to discourage rigging the selection.


31 posted on 12/21/2017 1:17:24 PM PST by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: Repeal 16-17

Dunderheads! Every damn one of them. Do a DNA test and elect the one with most Indian genes. Elect the one with the biggest feet, biggest boobs, fewest tooth cavities, most parking tickets, and newest car.


32 posted on 12/21/2017 1:47:06 PM PST by abbastanza
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To: PGR88

“Re-do the entire election”

Out of curiosity, I wonder if the military absentee votes got counted? They rarely seem to. And during the Bush/Gore Florida recount were actually “misplaced” - never found - and NEVER COUNTED.

Something stinketh in Richmond, and it ain’t no paper mill.


33 posted on 12/21/2017 1:47:24 PM PST by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancakes, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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To: C19fan

Since Democrats regularly cheat and lie with no troubled consciences, I suspect we know what the outcome of this will be.


34 posted on 12/21/2017 1:49:28 PM PST by Hacksaw (Support Alt-Tech: Gab.ai, Infogalactic.com, Brave browser)
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To: C19fan

That’s a perfectly fair and acceptable plan. My town had a tie (My kid forgot to vote) for a council seat.

They had no easy method for a tie breaker. The Mayor nominated someone. Council was supposed to approve. Since council is a bunch of loser liberals and the Mayor is a Constitutional conservative, they went through that exercise 3-4 times which took almost a year to seat the council member.

I suggested to the mayor that the candidates who tied have a duel in the town square with paintball guns. He liked the idea but never proposed it.

A friend is a small town mayor has a tie breaker plan on the books. Flip a coin.


35 posted on 12/21/2017 2:05:58 PM PST by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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To: C19fan

“I thought it would be dueling with flintlock pistols. The winner gets the seat.”

But then the loser gets ‘seated’ also.


36 posted on 12/21/2017 2:07:07 PM PST by LeoTDB69
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Why am I 100% sure that this 50/50 chance will come out for the dem. If by some freak of nature the (R) gets in expect hair trigger rioting and cities to burn


37 posted on 12/21/2017 2:12:09 PM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: C19fan

Shouldn’t they at least thumb-wrestle?


38 posted on 12/21/2017 2:17:23 PM PST by discostu (let's do another bad one, cause I like it when the blood drains from Dave's face.)
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To: Parley Baer

Wasn’t there a race out west a year or so ago that was decided by a dice roll? It’s stuck in the recess of my brain somewhere.


39 posted on 12/21/2017 3:09:21 PM PST by AllAmericanGirl44
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To: AllAmericanGirl44

May have been the same New Mexico County.


40 posted on 12/21/2017 3:50:47 PM PST by Parley Baer
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