A week after Idaho’s primary, Kootenai County’s final Republican contest was decided Tuesday with the flip of a coin. In the race for Precinct 8 committeeman, both incumbent Ralph Noyes and challenger Jimmie Masters received 123 votes. As dictated by Idaho code, county Clerk Dan English tossed a coin and Noyes called "heads" in the air. It was tails. The men shook hands and embraced. "We each win, no matter who wins," Noyes said of his contest with a man who lives around the corner from him at the Prairie Falls Community Golf Course in Post Falls. "It’s not like we have great ideological differences." English has been clerk for 15 years, and it’s the first time he can remember a county election being decided by a coin toss/Alison Boggs, SR.