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After reading the article, it turns out that the code is copied from earlier legislation for parliamentary elections, which use a somewhat complex voting method. I suppose the motivation was to allow a computer to functionally determine the result without needing to put up a dialog suggesting that somebody needs to toss a coin and click "heads" or "tails".

I was going to propose rocks, paper and scissors, best out of 15. But that can be gamed [1].

[1] - https://www.google.de/search?q=winning+at+rocks,+papers+scis...

The first result suggests announcing your move, and following through, gambling that most people think you are lying. In the last 10 years I've only ever played scissors, and I usually tell people ahead of time, and I still win about half the time.

This was my thought too. I was going to suggest they toss a coin.