Spring Lake Park mayoral election headed to random drawing after tie

The Spring Lake Park mayoral race will be decided by chance on Monday evening after both candidates finished with the same amount of votes last week.

Both candidates, incumbent Mayor Bob Nelson and challenger Halyn Roth received 1,401 votes in a race that had 13 write-in votes.

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To decide the winner, the candidates’ names will be put in a hat and whoever’s name is picked will be the winner. Whoever loses the drawing then has seven days to request a publicly funded recount.

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