The Tieton Coin Flip
Tuesday morning, a tied city council race in Tieton, Washington was decided by coin flip. The matter was reported by the Yakima Herald here. For those of you unfamiliar with Tieton, WA, it is about 150 miles south east of Seattle.
Just goes to show you that the mechanisms of democracy can have immense variation. I’m tempted to suggest the Tieton approach for a replacement for the electoral college: it’s cheaper, faster, and doesn’t leave any way for candidates to claim the election was stolen.
Excellent idea!
But I have to fill up a 16-week semester with discussion of our political system! How am I supposed to do that when we can cover the entire electoral process in 30 seconds? Are you trying to get me fired?!