{"id":104413,"date":"2022-11-15T05:57:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T00:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/they-elect-a-mayor-of-the-united-states-with-a-coin\/"},"modified":"2022-11-15T05:57:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T00:27:40","slug":"they-elect-a-mayor-of-the-united-states-with-a-coin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/they-elect-a-mayor-of-the-united-states-with-a-coin\/","title":{"rendered":"They elect a mayor of the United States with a coin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After a mayoral election in the US state of Kentucky ended in a tie, officials decided to choose the new mayor in an unconventional way: by flipping a coin.<\/p>\n

US broadcaster ABC News reported that Mason Taylor and incumbent Greg McElfresh each won 55 votes in Butler, Kentucky, mayoral elections held on Nov. 8.<\/p>\n

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According to the report, Kentucky law states that tied elections must be broken by a “lot,” that is, randomly. Hence, the officials opted for a coin to determine who would lead the city of just over 600 inhabitants.<\/p>\n

On November 10, the Pendleton County Sheriff flipped a coin, stipulating that if it came up heads, McElfresh would be chosen and if it came up tails, Taylor would be the winner.<\/p>\n

\"Mason<\/p>\n

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The coin twirled and spun on the ground about three times and then landed on the writings and I breathed a sigh of relief.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Mason Taylor for WCPO, a local ABC affiliate television channel<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The mayor-elect, Mason Taylor, 25, is currently a member of the Butler city council. In addition, he has served as a firefighter and paramedic. Taylor said he had “detailed plans” for the city’s future.<\/p>\n

\"Hand<\/p>\n

On the other hand, he added that this is not the first time that the city has flipped a coin to determine the winner. In 2018, this method was applied in a city council election. However, Kentucky is also not the only state in the United States that determines the winner by lottery or coin toss in case of equality of votes.<\/p>\n

According to the National Association of State Parliaments, a total of 28 states provide for the determination of the winner by lottery or “similar random methods” if the number of votes received is equal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a mayoral election in the US state of Kentucky ended in a tie, officials decided to choose the new mayor in an unconventional way: by flipping a coin. US broadcaster ABC News reported that Mason Taylor and incumbent Greg McElfresh each won 55 votes in Butler, Kentucky, mayoral elections held on Nov. 8. According<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":104414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10746],"tags":[13482,25042,29727,23612,11754,11755],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.okchicas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/COVER-volado.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}