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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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The Democrat was up one vote for a seat representing an era in Hampton Roads in VA's lower house. Then a vote for the D was tossed out so one has a tie. This is huge because if the D draws the correct lot the VA lower house will be exactly evenly split. The GOP needs to make sure if the D is drawing the winning paper is not placed in a freezer before the draw, a la, NBA draft lottery when the Knicks won the top pick to draft Patrick Ewing.
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posted on
12/21/2017 12:05:31 PM PST
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
Is that procedure written into their constitution? :)
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posted on
12/21/2017 12:07:10 PM PST
by
Skywise
To: C19fan
The will of the people, not the happenstance of the cosmic universe. Only a Liberal could have come up with this nonsense.
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posted on
12/21/2017 12:08:07 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(McConnell, Ryan, and the whole GOPe are dead to me. Are Alabamans tired of winning?)
To: Skywise
I thought it would be dueling with flintlock pistols. The winner gets the seat.
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posted on
12/21/2017 12:08:23 PM PST
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
Re-do the entire election
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posted on
12/21/2017 12:08:39 PM PST
by
PGR88
To: C19fan
How do we know that there are two names in the bowl instead of just the Democrat's?
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posted on
12/21/2017 12:09:30 PM PST
by
BlessedBeGod
(To restore all things in Christ~~Appeasing evil is cowardice~~Francis is temporary. Hell is forever.)
To: DoughtyOne
I have never even heard of this stupid procedure. Why cant we just do it like our forefathers did to settle stupid stuff like this...10 paces with a pistol.
To: C19fan
There was a coin toss to decide a tie in a council race in the Pittsburgh area within the last several years.
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posted on
12/21/2017 12:11:20 PM PST
by
Ciexyz
(I'm conservative & traditionalist, a nationalist and patriot.)
To: C19fan
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posted on
12/21/2017 12:11:48 PM PST
by
Beowulf9
To: C19fan
Nonsense. We want to be entertained. Pistols at dawn.
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posted on
12/21/2017 12:12:13 PM PST
by
Salvavida
(The Missouri citizen's militia sends its regards.)
To: C19fan
There was a coin toss to decide a tie in a council race in the Pittsburgh area within the last several years.
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posted on
12/21/2017 12:12:15 PM PST
by
Ciexyz
(I'm conservative & traditionalist, a nationalist and patriot.)
UNBELIEVEABLE...
HAVE A FRESH ELECTION...DO IT ALL OVER..THAT IS THE ONLY FAIR WAY..
To: C19fan
Haven’t you heard LIBERALS love lotteries.
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posted on
12/21/2017 12:13:09 PM PST
by
Tac Double Tap
(I'd rather die standing than on my knees begging.)
To: Salvavida
Thunderdome!! Two enter and one leaves!
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posted on
12/21/2017 12:14:05 PM PST
by
DarthVader
("The biggest misconception on Free Republic is that the Deep State is invulnerable")
To: C19fan
I thought it would be dueling with flintlock pistols. The
winner survivor gets the seat.
There.
Better.
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posted on
12/21/2017 12:14:07 PM PST
by
null and void
(The internet gave everyone a mouth. It gave no one a brain.)
To: C19fan
I thought the Republicans were allowed to count one extra vote that had been thrown out but appealed. And I thought the tiebraker was going to be a coin flip.
Yeah, I could see the Dems rigging the film canisters by marking the lid so the draw-er would know which one to pick.
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posted on
12/21/2017 12:15:31 PM PST
by
OrangeHoof
(Let Trump Be Trump. Would you rather have Hillary?)
To: beergarden
LOL
Sounds like a special election to me...
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posted on
12/21/2017 12:15:35 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(McConnell, Ryan, and the whole GOPe are dead to me. Are Alabamans tired of winning?)
To: C19fan
*sigh*
With every passing day we seem to slip further away from the vision of our Founding Fathers.
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posted on
12/21/2017 12:17:20 PM PST
by
The Deplorable Miss Lemon
(If illegals are here to do the jobs Americans won't do why are so many illegals on welfare?)
To: C19fan
What? Why don’t they just break out their shootin’ irons and cut paper. YeeeHawww Giddyup
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