RSS Feeds  Coin tossing breaks tie in Philippine mayoral race
Friday - 5/17/2013, 1:10pm  ET  MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- What
do you do when two candidates running for mayor in the
Philippines get exactly the same number of votes? You get them
to toss a coin.  Marvic Feraren and Boyet Py both received 3,236
votes for mayor of San Teodoro town in Mindoro Oriental province
in Monday's elections.  The Elections Commissions suggested the
two men flip a coin five times each, which is allowed under the
country's Election Code to break a tie.  Feraren won Tuesday,
but not before a second round of coin flipping.  They tied in
the first round too.