After coin toss, deck of cards will rule between Sanders, Clinton
After resorting to coin toss in Iowa, US Democratic establishment has now opted for drawing cards to break ties between presidential contenders in the upcoming Nevada caucuses.
A memo issued on February 8 states that in case of a tie between former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, “a game of chance will decide” which candidate will win the delegates in different Nevada precincts this weekend, The Hill reported.
According to the memo, each precinct will have an unopened, state party-supplied deck of cards and rules on how to settle ties between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
Apparently, each deck must be shuffled seven times at the beginning, then supporters from each party will draw a card and the highest one wins a delegate.
This wouldn’t be the first time this tie-breaking method is being used, as in 2008 then-Illinois Senator Barack Obama won a delegate from Hillary Clinton the same way.
Iowa Democrats were ridiculed earlier this month when several coin tosses determined the winner of precinct caucuses, at the end of a close race where Sanders lost to Clinton by a 0.1 percent margin.
To break ties between Clinton and Sanders, party officials recommended coin toss as a solution to settle the dispute.
Sanders won six out of seven coin flips, the Des Moines Register reported, citing the state party’s smartphone app. Reportedly, Clinton won her fifth delegate after a supporter called “heads” on the quarter flipped in the air.
“It’s a toss, it’s a coin toss basically, let’s say that. You flip it six times and you get a better chance of choosing a president than this insane system that we call democracy,” political commentator Daniel Patrick Welch said of the strange electoral method in an interview with Press TV earlier this month.
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