CDR: RE: Aces high

[Trei, Peter]

A few years ago, the Swedish parliment was divided between
two parties perfectly evenly. 

There were quite a number of votes where tie votes were
broken by coin toss.

(We have some follks over from our Stockholm office. We
were surprised that they were'nt more amused by our 
election (many outlanders are quite snide about it), and 
on asking, learned the above.)

Peter


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> From: 	Tim May[SMTP:tcmay at got.net]
> Reply To: 	Tim May
> Sent: 	Thursday, November 16, 2000 1:39 PM
> To: 	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: 	Re: Aces high
> 
> At 12:42 PM -0500 11/16/00, David Honig wrote:
> >At 04:36 AM 11/16/00 -0500, Bill Stewart wrote:
> >>
> >>A good tomato throwing fight _would_ be a pretty appropriate
> >>way to resolve this election.    You can vote early and often...
> >  >
> >
> >Its a shame duelling is passe.
> >
> 
> It's sad to see so many otherwise-careful people calling for "flips 
> of a coin," "hands of poker," and "duels at sunrise."
> 
> Even if meant in jest, as a comment on the situation, it undermines 
> the basic issue of law.
> 
> 
> --Tim May
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