Winner takes all: Nevada election tie settled by high-card draw showdown

Call it the luck of the draw – literally.

A tied local election in Nevada was decided by a high-card draw Wednesday morning, as two candidates vied to serve out full terms on a local governing board in the small town of Gerlach, about 100 miles north of Reno.

Longtime residents and friends Carl Copek and Seth Schrenzel both ran last year for one of four seats on the Gerlach General Improvement District (GGID) Board of Directors. By law, the top three vote-getters would serve full, four-year terms through 2028, while the bottom vote-getter out of the four would have to run again in 2026, according to the Washoe County Registrar of Voters.

Copek and Schrenzel both received 67 votes out of a total 335 votes cast for five candidates, tying them for third place and necessitating a tiebreaker, with the loser securing fourth place. Since both Copek and Schrenzel tied for third, they were guaranteed to serve at least two years and the tiebreaker was pushed until this week, according to the Washoe County Registrar of Voters.



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