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Azhais posted:What happens in case of a tie? Is there a new election or does someone get a tiebreaker? In VA law if two candidates tie it goes to a round of fisticuffs and horseshoes to determine the winner
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Azhais posted:What happens in case of a tie? Is there a new election or does someone get a tiebreaker? I believe they draw lots.
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Azhais posted:What happens in case of a tie? Is there a new election or does someone get a tiebreaker? winner determined "by lot" i.e. drawing a name out of a hat
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Azhais posted:What happens in case of a tie? Is there a new election or does someone get a tiebreaker? I'm guessing a protracted lawsuit over the provenance of that ballot
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Nevvy Z posted:What happened with the one where a bunch of people were given the entirely wrong ballot? Pending decision. Expect a special election.
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Azhais posted:What happens in case of a tie? Is there a new election or does someone get a tiebreaker? The winner is whoever received the most white votes.
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guidoanselmi posted:Was the health care spending deduction removed in the final bill?? If so, that's where my tax cut is going I dunno they seem to have just more or less randomly decided to eliminate this or that in order to fudge with the numbers. I mean maybe that's not really true but I wouldn't be surprised if it is evilweasel posted:winner determined "by lot" i.e. drawing a name out of a hat holy poo poo is this real
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Yeah, I'm getting like $700 but I'm sure as poo poo not changing my party registration over it. Wait, am I the baddie?
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I never knew Mooseport was in Virginia.
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evilweasel posted:winner determined "by lot" i.e. drawing a name out of a hat Too easy to manipulate - they should really use a coin flip
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:Eh, you may or may not still see a tax cut. People did a real bad thing of being hyperbolic and changing "it favors billionaires" into a hyper literal idea that it only gave tax breaks to only billionaires and to all billionaires and not to anyone else ever. People may have done that in their head, but literally everything that I've read up to this point is "If you're rich or middle class, you'll get a tax cut until 2025, at which point you're taxes will go up if you're middle class. Unless you live in a high-tax state or use any of the deductions that are being cut. And rising insurance prices will eat most or all of your tax cut."
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my swing vote story is that the small town I grew up in voted to build a sort of ludicrously large fire hall, that my parents were opposed to but didn't show up for, and it passed by one vote then I told this story on the bus to a kid who happened to be the son of the fire chief and he got all butthurt about it
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Munkeymon posted:Too easy to manipulate - they should really use a coin flip Of course, the question then is how do you do it when more than two candidates are tied? You need a random chance method that can scale up.
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Well, I just donated some of my expected tax savings to a handful of house challengers, and I urge everyone else to do the same if you can afford it.
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https://twitter.com/SchneiderG/status/943220504705536001
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Pakled posted:Of course, the question then is how do you do it when more than two candidates are tied? You need a random chance method that can scale up. Round robin game of Rock, Paper, Scissor, Lizard, Spock.
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Levitate posted:holy poo poo is this real Its very common for a tie election to be resolved through a random selection of some kind. Ties are so rare that when they happen and people have blown the dust off the law book, its funny what ends up being the procedure. I think here in Iowa, we flip a coin, and in another one of those big square states in the west the 2 candidates had to each draw a card from a standard deck of playing cards with the highest card winning.
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Pakled posted:Of course, the question then is how do you do it when more than two candidates are tied? You need a random chance method that can scale up. You can just round-robin coin flips. If there is one winner of the round, he/she wins. If not, proceed with another round-robin containing only those who tied for winning the previous round.
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Mind_Taker posted:You can just round-robin coin flips. What happens if the coin keeps landing on its edge?
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Pakled posted:Of course, the question then is how do you do it when more than two candidates are tied? You need a random chance method that can scale up. Just flip more coins, each coin is one bit. A Bitcoin, if you will. So two heads would be zero. A head followed by a tail would be one. A tail followed by a head would be two. Two tails would be three. You just zero index your list of candidates and discard an invalid result. With three coins you can scale up to 8 candidates, with four coins 16, and so on.
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evilweasel posted:https://twitter.com/reemadamin/status/943216518413811714 Kind of hoping the provisional ballot is for the Republican, but it's by a minority and all the work to suppress the vote results in them not actually being registered. I mean, if you're going to disenfranchise people at least let it result in one comical goof.
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Susan Collins throwing error codes https://twitter.com/pdmcleod/status/943221066171912192
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TheScott2K posted:Susan Collins throwing error codes lmao what the gently caress
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TheScott2K posted:Susan Collins throwing error codes Hahaha
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TheScott2K posted:Susan Collins throwing error codes lol
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They exhausted all her quest-specific dialog
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Pakled posted:Of course, the question then is how do you do it when more than two candidates are tied? You need a random chance method that can scale up. Sum of multiple flips per candidate. Keep going until one has the highest number.
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TheScott2K posted:Susan Collins throwing error codes This is some astounding cynicism.
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Your Boy Fancy posted:Pending decision. Expect a special election. Thanks! Can that take them up to 51 potentially? I recall there being a bunch of nonsense in that body if the parties are equally split.
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So this means VA has been flipped officially?
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There Bias Two posted:So this means VA has been flipped officially? It's tied and the governor has the tiebreaker right?
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For the rest of our lives we'll all have That One Time we can reference when talking about the importance of voting and the value of a single vote.
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TheScott2K posted:Susan Collins throwing error codes Ahahaha what?!
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Pakled posted:Of course, the question then is how do you do it when more than two candidates are tied? You need a random chance method that can scale up. Every candidate rolls a D20, high roll wins. However if a candidate rolls a 20, and regardless of if other candidates have yet to roll, they win. Any candidate that rolls a 1 must officially change their party to that of the winning candidate and donate all remaining campaign and Super PAC funds to the winning candidate. If all candidates roll a 1, all are bared from every holding elective office or even voting ever again and a new election is held.
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FizFashizzle posted:lol jesus I remember when all goons were as poor as me. My post was a joke  I was poking fun at the idiots who got suckered by a "non-partisan" calculator sponsored by Fox News and started fantasizing about how much money they'd save from corporate taxes being slashed into oblivion. The whole point is that cutting taxes is bad even if you're saving money as a result. Even if this tax bill was only cutting taxes on people who make under $200k, while leaving rich people's taxes and business taxes untouched, it would still be incredibly bad. Taxes need to be going up, not down - even entering your income into that thing at all amounts to getting suckered by the GOP propaganda machine. Besides, the calculator intentionally leaves off a number of things - it omits a number of changes that help the rich or hurt the poor, such as deduction changes and AMT changes.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:It's tied and the governor has the tiebreaker right? no, there's no tiebreaker at all but if a special election gets ordered, democrats will vote themselves the majority 50-49 while the election is going on if not, last time they agreed one party would be the majority one year, the other party would be the majority the other
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