Meanwhile, in Florida...
A draw of the cards makes William Shearon mayor of Bradenton Beach
MANATEE -- William Shearon was named mayor of Bradenton Beach once again Wednesday after he drew an ace of clubs in an unusual tie-breaker that marked Manatee County history.
Mayor Jack Clarke, who sat across from Shearon in the Manatee County Supervisor of Elections office, drew a 10 of clubs. The tense moment came after a machine recount and a manual recount confirmed the 195-195 result from Tuesday night.
Before opening a fresh deck of cards and shuffling them, county Supervisor of Elections Michael Bennett laid out the rules to both men as others looked on from the other side of a wall cut-out. Clarke cut the cards first, and then Bennett reshuffled the cards before Shearon took his turn.
According to Bennett, this was the first time in at least 20
years that an election ended this way in Manatee County.
"First of all, it's significant in Manatee County for people to understand -- if nothing else, everybody should understand how important their vote is," Bennett said. "Too many times, people say, 'Well, my vote doesn't matter.' We proved their vote mattered. They did it for themselves."
A little more than half of Bradenton Beach's 758 registered voters cast ballots in the mayoral election.
Read more here: http://www.bradenton.com/news/politics-government/article42973245.html#storylink=cpy
