(12-21-2017 12:38 PM)EverRespect Wrote:  

(12-21-2017 12:27 PM)dawgitall Wrote:  They threw out a ballot that had both candidates filled in with a mark threw one of the candidates name. Then a judge ruled that the ballot should be counted, thus the tie. The judge evidently can read minds.

It was sort of a "make-up call" for the 11 votes the other candidate made somewhat similarly. They were also tallied on a whiteboard for the hand count (some 23k total votes) and there is really no guarantee there is no human error in that process (even a single vote error would have swung it). Frankly, if another vote cannot be conducted, the coin-flip is probably appropriate.

Was all the 10 vote swing from contested ballots or was some / all of it from an incorrect count? Also what is the ratio on the county election board?