Entitlement

Some people should be banned from publicly giving opinions to millions of people worldwide. They’re like reckless drivers. Careless. Someone gave the opinion that since they read somewhere that two candidates were made to settle who won, by a toss-coin, that maybe Migs Zubiri and Coco Pimentel should settle their election by toss-coin. (Even when you give “off-the-cuffs”, or “maybe’s”, they should make some sense; they should have some basis, like general information or general knowledge. Why would people settle elective offices by toss-coin? Try to make sense. IT WAS A TIE! ) Here’s the provision:

Omnibus Election Code: (I downloaded from chan.robles.com because I didn’t want to type):

Sec. 240. Election resulting in tie. – Whenever it shall appear from the canvass that two or more candidates have received an equal and highest number of votes, or in cases where two or more candidates are to be elected for the same position and two or more candidates received the same number of votes for the last place in the number to be elected, the board of canvassers, after recording this fact in its minutes, shall by resolution, upon five days notice to all the tied candidates, hold a special public meeting at which the board of canvassers shall proceed to the drawing of lots of the candidates who have tied and shall proclaim as elected the candidates who may be favored by luck, and the candidates so proclaimed shall have the right to assume office in the same manner as if he had been elected by plurality of vote. The board of canvassers shall forthwith make a certificate stating the name of the candidate who had been favored by luck and his proclamation on the basis thereof.

Some people are not just careless; they have a sense of entitlement.