diff --git a/code/controllers/subsystem/vote.dm b/code/controllers/subsystem/vote.dm
index a2ce6f42fe..5a9b8ac84e 100644
--- a/code/controllers/subsystem/vote.dm
+++ b/code/controllers/subsystem/vote.dm
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ SUBSYSTEM_DEF(vote)
 	//one last pass, now that we've done the math
 	for(var/i in 1 to choices.len)
 		for(var/j in 1 to choices.len)
-			if(i != j && p[i][j] > p[j][i])
+			if(i != j && p[i][j] >= p[j][i])
 				choices[choices[i]]++
 				// choices[choices[i]] is the schulze ranking, here, rather than raw vote numbers