by John Galt » Tue Jan 09, 2018 11:31 am
there's literally one paragraph explaining all of this and it's included in it. there isn't this archaic list of hundreds of pages of rules and this one obscure thing was found at the 11th hour to throw stuff in different direction; it's not "a technicality", it's how the thing functions
the only election that arguably ended in a technicality recently was the VA legislature which was determined by picking a name out of hat, because that was done as there was a literal tie, and that is how the legislature saw fit to fix the issue in the result of a tie
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