Tired of talk of voting machines and dangling chads? Well, you can always do what they just pulled off in Groveland, Fla.
Realizing that it just isn't civilized to settle an election with a good game of rock-paper-scissors or with a mud wrestling extravaganza, the Groveland city council went for the old standby: the common coin toss.
Call it in the air, my friends.
From our friends at the
AssPress:
Coin toss determines winner in Florida city council race
Associated Press
The state that is the king of bizarre election finishes added another page to its quirky electoral history Friday: a city council race decided by a coin toss.
G.P. Sloan, 77, and Richard Flynn, 75, each received 689 votes in the Nov. 2 election. No one emerged a winner after two recounts, so the candidates and three dozen supporters gathered for a coin flip Friday in the community center of this town of 4,400 residents located 25 miles west of Orlando.
The city manager flipped a bicentennial dollar coin, and Flynn shouted "Heads." City manager Jason Yarborough caught it and flipped it on to the back of his hand. "Tails it is," Yarborough said, giving Sloan the victory.
Typical Florida. As soon as Ohio jumps into the spotlight, Florida goes and pulls a stunt like this to draw the eyeballs back to them.