Corpus Christi rolled out an unconventional tie-breaker method to decide the fate of a City Council seat — rolling dice and drawing marbles.

After a casting of lots, incumbent City Councilman Everett Roy bested former councilman Billy Lerma for the District 1 seat.

Dist. 1 incumbent Everett Roy led former Dist. 1 councilman Billy Lerma by two votes with all 15 voting centers reporting. Dist. 1 includes North Beach, Downtown, parts of Uptown, Annaville and ...

Candidates in the District 1 runoff election are incumbent City Councilman Everett Roy and former councilman Billy Lerma. Each candidate received 1,916 votes, according to the runoff election ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Both Corpus Christi City Council District 1 candidates, incumbent Everett Roy and former councilman Billy Lerma, confirmed to 3NEWS that the manual recount ended in a tie.

A manual recount intended to determine the ultimate winner of Corpus Christi City Council’s District 1 race is expected to get underway Monday and Tuesday, according to city officials.

This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and ...

As KRIS 6 News first reported, votes were tied at 1,916 votes following a runoff between incumbent Everett Roy and former City Councilor Billy Lerma this month. According to state law, that tie ...

As KRIS 6 News reported, the results of the runoff election had candidates incumbent Everett Roy and Billy Lerma tied at 1,916 votes, which triggered an automatic recount. Lerma filed a petition ...

In the race between incumbent Everett Roy and former councilman Billy Lerma, Roy led Lerma by just two votes. However, any additional mail-in or provisional ballots could change that. The question ...