A majority vote is the usual minimum requirement for the courts to reach at a decision in most cases in constitutional justice procedure. For those instances where exists not a majority vote but an equally divided court, a.k.a. a tie vote, or simply a tie, procedural laws of constitutional justice have devised various rules and methods. This article deals with the issue of tie votes in constitutional justice, with a particular focus on the ways in which the possibility of a tie vote is addressed -the structural or procedural measures taken to prevent