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Sun 5 Sep, 2004 03:36 am
As Col Man seems to be away, recently, I thought that I would post this.
If Hong Kong political candidates finish in a dead heat, the election will be decided by the luck of the draw ?- from a bag of numbered pingpong balls.
It may sound more like bingo than politics, but under Hong Kong electoral rules, the tied candidates must each pick a ball at random. Whoever pulls out the highest number takes office.
for the full story, which tells of how elections have been decided like this recently, click here:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=816&ncid=816&e=3&u=/ap/20040904/ap_on_fe_st/hong_kong_pingpong_politics
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