This one’s dedicated to those hand-wringin’ and hollerin’ Halifaxians who yelped when a random drawing broke a school board election tie…<\/p>\n
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I had fun last week listening to Halifax County residents who had no idea that a tied election was legally required to be broken in a random drawing.<\/p>\n
See, folks? It happens in other places. It happened in Henry County 12 years ago.<\/p>\n
It’s how it’s done. Carry on.<\/p>\n
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This one’s dedicated to those hand-wringin’ and hollerin’ Halifaxians who yelped when a random drawing broke a school board election tie…<\/p>\n
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