Comments | patrickwonders: Let's Talk About Coin Flips

patrickwonders

Let's Talk About Coin Flips

Feb 03, 2016 15:49

There has been lots of talk in the last 24 hours about coin flips. If a precinct had, for example, five delegates to award and the caucus-goers were evenly divided between two candidates, they would award two delegates to each and toss a coin to see which of them got the fifth delegate.

Most of the social-media that I've seen in response has been ( Read more... )

math, elections

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newlifeinstpaul February 3 2016, 22:34:05 UTC

How's this for screwed up? My widdle town could have had its first city councilperson of color. The votes were an exact tie. Person of color (per interview) thought it foolish and wasteful for the city to pay for additional certification of the vote, a possible run-off election blah blah blah. Agreed to a coin flip. Lost.

The night before the election, I surveyed a sample ballot, shrugged 'eh, no issues I care about' and didn't go to my polling location.

I could have made history. ME. ON MY OWN. And didn't.

Not that there'd have been 'Lone Negro swings the Vote' headlines. Nevertheless.....