FORD CITY, Kan. (AP) If Andy Thompson’s wife had been in town last week, there would have been no need for a tiebreaker in the city council race in a tiny southwest Kansas community.
But Thompson tells The Dodge City Globe his wife’s return from a visit to their grandson was delayed when the boy got appendicitis.
So she wasn’t among the 42 Ford City voters who cast ballots in the April 2 council election, which ended with 21 votes apiece for Thompson and Betty Shearon.
The Ford County Board of Canvassers decided the race this week by putting the candidates’ names in a hat and having an impartial third party draw one name. Thompson won.
County Commissioner Jerry King says the Ford City example shows the importance of every single vote.
