A coin toss will not solve a management issue

By Rey Elbo

Oct 24, 2023 12:21 am

IN 2013, two candidates running for mayor in the town of San Teodoro, Oriental Mindoro both received identical votes of 3,236 each. It's unbelievable considering the election was done with the use of high-tech devices in electronic voting. To resolve the deadlock, the local Commission of Elections proposed a coin toss that resulted with one being declared the winner.

If a coin toss is allowed under election rules, then what more in other cases?

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