Elections resulting in tie.
Section 160
SEC. 160. Elections resulting in tie. — Whenever in any election for Member of the National Assembly or for provincial or city officials it shall appear from the canvass that two or more candidates have received the same largest number of votes, the corresponding board of canvassers, after recording this fact in the corresponding statement, shall, upon ten days' notice to all the tied candidates so that they may be present if they so desire, hold another public meeting at which it shall proceed to the drawing of lots of the candidates who have tied and shall proclaim as elected that candidate who may be favored by luck, and the candidate so proclaimed shall have the right to assume office in the same manner as if he had been elected by plurality vote. The board shall forthwith make a statement of the procedure followed in the drawing of lots, of its result and of the subsequent proclamation. Certified copies of said statement shall be sent to the National Assembly, to the Department of the Interior, 1 and to each one of the tied candidates. 2. ELECTION FOR MUNICIPAL OFFICES