Guest X20 Posted December 31, 2020 at 03:16 AM Report Share Posted December 31, 2020 at 03:16 AM Our election for president ended in a tie, what do we do now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Elsman Posted December 31, 2020 at 04:14 AM Report Share Posted December 31, 2020 at 04:14 AM Had things been done properly, a second round of voting would have commenced--and again, and so forth, until someone garnered a majority vote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Brown Posted December 31, 2020 at 02:15 PM Report Share Posted December 31, 2020 at 02:15 PM 10 hours ago, Guest X20 said: Our election for president ended in a tie, what do we do now? You vote again. And again and again, if necessary. You have an incomplete election. There are also some other options, but more information as to exactly what is happening would help us to suggest other options. One option is for the two candidates to agree among themselves that they will flip a coin and that the loser will voluntarily withdraw from the race. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Puzzling Posted December 31, 2020 at 04:19 PM Report Share Posted December 31, 2020 at 04:19 PM 12 hours ago, Guest X20 said: Our election for president ended in a tie, what do we do now? That cannot be right. For election in RONR you need a majority in the first place (more than half) so or they both were not elected (neither had more than half) or you are using plurality vote (winner is the person who got the most votes, that does not need to be a majority) So If there are 9 voters for 3 candidates and the vote is Candidate A 4 votes Candidate B 4 votes Candidate C 1 vote Under RONR nobody is elected and there is no tie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Brown Posted December 31, 2020 at 07:01 PM Report Share Posted December 31, 2020 at 07:01 PM 2 hours ago, Guest Puzzling said: That cannot be right. Well, it is definitely what happened according to Guest x-20. You've never seen an election result in a tie? Really? It actually happens quite often. btw, the guest posted no information to support your hypothetical. I think our guest is asking what his group should do since the election clearly resulted in a tie of some kind and nobody was elected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atul Kapur Posted December 31, 2020 at 08:22 PM Report Share Posted December 31, 2020 at 08:22 PM I believe Guest Puzzling meant that it cannot be correct that the election ended in a tie, making the point that it is still incomplete (I half expected that Mr. H would be the one to say that). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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