Local News in Brief : Election Left to Chance
Two candidates for a seat on the Palos Verdes Estates City Council wound up in a tie late Thursday after 13 ballots--disputed on election night because of registration questions--were held to be valid.
The count sent officials in this bedroom city--which had not had a contested council election in six years--to the law books in search of a solution.
City Clerk Barbara Culver said that no provisions had been adopted by the city for resolving a tie and that the probable solution under the state Elections Code will be a drawing by lot to decide the winner between Rita M. Bayer and Raymond D. Mattingly, who wound up with 1,565 votes each.
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