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Power of voting: Democrat beats GOP incumbent to win seat she lost in 2017 after tie-breaking pick(literally picking names from a bowl)

Slayven

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A Virginia Democrat who lost her 2017 race for the state's House of Delegates after another candidate's name was picked out of a bowl in a tie-breaker handily ousted her Republican foe Tuesday.
Shelly Simonds defeated Republican incumbent Delegate David Yancey, allowing her to claim the seat she lost two years ago after a state law dating back to 1705 was used to settle the 11,608-vote tie between the two candidates. Simonds won the rematch with 11,556 votes to Yancey's 8,069 votes, according to results from the state Department of Elections.
Following her win, an ecstatic Simonds underscored how consequential each vote was in this year's election.
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Gustaf

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is this no the same woman who lost the seat due to a COIN TOSS?

what the fuck with your election laws usa?!
 

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Gustaf said:
what the fuck with your election laws usa?!
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State level policy, former confederate state, and effective repeal of the voting rights act (which existed largely to keep racist ratfucking in check that would lead to circumstances like this, specifically targeting the confederate states). Most of the country thankfully does not use coin tosses for election decisions
 
Gustaf

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muteKi said:
State level policy, former confederate state, and effective repeal of the voting rights act (which helped keep most of these sorts of BS deciding factors in check). Most of the country thankfully does not use coin tosses for election decisions
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Slayven said:
updating 300 year old laws are hard
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i feel that the incumbment should win in the case of a tie?

what do you think? would people say democracy is not being respected in that case?
 

Kumquat

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Ranked preference voting would side step most of these issues and actually make third party candidates viable.
 
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