Via Daily Caller:
Republican incumbent David Yancey was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates Thursday after his name was drawn from a bowl in an odd tie breaking measure mandated by an arcane state law.
The drawing broke the 11,608-to-11,608 tie between Yancey and Democrat Shelly Simonds, who is entitled by law to request a second recount. The odd electoral quirk is the product of a 1705 law that mandates an electoral tie be settled by a random lottery drawing.
Yancey’s election, should it stand, would give Virginia Republicans a 51 – 49 majority in the state House, enabling them to confront Virginia Governor-elect Ralph Northam’s progressive agenda.