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  2. Drawing lots (decision making) - Wikipedia

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    The drawing of lots is sometimes used to determine which candidate is elected where the candidates have the same number of votes. In the United Kingdom, drawing lots can be used to decide on the allocation of school places where other criteria result in a tie. [1]

  3. Casting lots - Wikipedia

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    Drawing lots (cards), the practice, in card games, of cutting the deck or drawing a random card to determine seating, partnerships, or the first dealer; Drawing lots (decision making), a selection method, or a form of sortition, that is used by a group to choose one member of the group to perform a task after none has volunteered for it

  4. List of close election results - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of close election results on the national level and within administrative divisions.It lists results that have been decided by a margin of less than 1 vote in 1,000 (a margin of less than 0.1 percentage points): single-winner elections where the winning candidate was less than 0.1% ahead of the second-placed candidate, as well as party-list elections where a party was less than ...

  5. Cleromancy - Wikipedia

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    In 1917, Metropolitan Tikhon became Patriarch of Moscow by the drawing of lots. The Coptic Orthodox Church uses drawing lots to choose the Coptic pope, most recently done in November 2012 to choose Pope Tawadros II. German Pietist Christians in the 18th century often followed the New Testament precedent of drawing lots to determine the will of God.

  6. MIL-STD-1168 - Wikipedia

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    The Lot number is in the format of: LLH/NNL/NNNH/NNNLL/L. In this example, "L" stands for Letter, "N" stands for Number, and "H" stands for Hyphen. The slashes are to break the Lot Number code into identifiable sections. The first section (LLH or LLL) is the three-symbol Manufacturer’s Identification Symbol, which is two or three letters long ...

  7. Casting vote - Wikipedia

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    In some legislatures, a casting vote may be exercised however the presiding officer wishes.For example, the vice president of the United States may exercise their casting vote when the Senate is evenly divided according to their own personal beliefs; by virtue of the vice president's political leanings and affiliations, the vice president's political party is able to serve as the majority ...

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  9. Fischer random chess numbering scheme - Wikipedia

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    As an application, a random number generator could make one probe into the range at hand for a random number, and produce a random SP. Late in 2005, the program Fritz9 became available. It has a Fischer random chess option, but, for some unexplained reason, it assigns idns to SPs in a different way.