Coin Toss Decides Mayor Race

[UNTflyer]

GOODRIDGE, Minn. (AP) ― A coin toss has determined the winner of the mayor's race in the tiny northwestern Minnesota town of Goodridge. Incumbent Bob Homme and former Mayor Dave Brown each got 22 votes. Instead of finding the ballots and recounting the 44 votes, they agreed to decide the winner with a coin toss.

It already was a strange race in Goodridge -- population 98 -- with no one filing to run for mayor. Brown and Homme were both write-ins.

To break the tie, each tossed his own coin. If it was even, meaning two heads or two tails, Homme would win the two-year term. If it was odd, meaning a head and a tail, Brown would win.

It was a head and a tail. Brown won.

[Smitty]

GOODRIDGE, Minn. (AP) ― A coin toss has determined the winner of the mayor's race in the tiny northwestern Minnesota town of Goodridge. Incumbent Bob Homme and former Mayor Dave Brown each got 22 votes. Instead of finding the ballots and recounting the 44 votes, they agreed to decide the winner with a coin toss.

It already was a strange race in Goodridge -- population 98 -- with no one filing to run for mayor. Brown and Homme were both write-ins.

To break the tie, each tossed his own coin. If it was even, meaning two heads or two tails, Homme would win the two-year term. If it was odd, meaning a head and a tail, Brown would win.

It was a head and a tail. Brown won.

Seems arbitrary and unfair to decide it that way.

A steel-cage death match would have been better.

[yyz28]

Seems arbitrary and unfair to decide it that way.

A steel-cage death match would have been better.

...and could have been televised on Pay per View and eliminate any financial problems the little town may have had...