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MARCH 23, 2001

Thanks to a new election law passed by the Navajo Nation in February, Garry P. Holiday won election to the Oljato Chapter House in Oljato, Utah, by a coin toss.

Except the coin toss didn't decide the election per se. When two candidates receive equal votes in an election, a coin toss determines the winner instead of a run-off.

So when the coin was flipped, both Holiday and his opponent James Black called out heads. The coin landed heads.

The tribe's Intergovernmental Relations Committee then held a special one-hour session and decided Holiday was the rightful winner of the election.

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Coin Toss Decides Winner of Navajo Vote (The Salt Lake Tribune 3/23)