TAMPA, Fla — With the 2020 presidential election a little more than two months away, registered voters are trying to decide who to pick. A recent Pew Research study suggests this year’s voter turnout ...

A coin flip and random drawing determined the winner of a tied school board race in Mt. Clemens on Wednesday. Rashidah Hammond and Alex Bronson both received 3,495 votes in the race, tying for the ...

Two area political races that were tied went to a random coin flip and drawing following election certification meetings by county election boards this week.

With Tuesday’s Georgia runoff election between Raphael Warnock and Herschel Walker anticipated to be decided by the slimmest of margins, it got us to thinking. Have there been any ties in previous ...

And the winner is! ... After spinning a raffle drum, Pierce County Councilman Dan Roach reads aloud the name of a new precinct committee officer during a lot drawing at the Election Center in Tacoma.

A coin flip decided a city council seat for the first time in Pasadena’s history. District B candidates Bianca Valerio and Bruce Leamon were tied at 272 votes in their runoff election. After a recount ...

BREEZY POINT, Minn. - After an Election night tie for a seat on the Breezy Point City Council, the outcome came down to the flip of a coin.Gary Mitchell and Jeff Helland both received 477 votes Nov. 8 ...

If you flip a coin, the odds of getting heads or tails are an equal 50 per cent chance – right? While this is what statistics textbooks will tell you, there is increasing evidence that it isn’t quite ...

Researchers find flipped coins have what's called same side bias. They flipped coins in 46 currencies 350,000 times, and registered that 51% of the time the coins landed on the side they started on.

A coin flip is considered by many to be the perfect 50/50 random event, even though — being an event subject to Newtonian physics — the results are in fact anything but random. But that’s okay, ...

For decades, flipping a coin has symbolized perfect randomness—a fair, 50/50 chance between heads and tails. But research suggests that this age-old belief might not be as foolproof as we thought. A ...