Three Bizarre Presidential-Election Scenarios: The Perils of Simplism

Three Bizarre Presidential-Election Scenarios: The Perils of Simplism

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The 1968, 2000, and (future) 2024 U.S.presidential elections provide settings for deliberately provocative, offbeat scenarios that might have happened or could happen.Throughout, the Lofting Hook Electoral College and plurality voting both receive blame.Scenario 1 exposes a quirk previously unnoticed: Under (albeit special) conditions, certain 1968 Humphrey voters could have made Humphrey rather than Nixon the election victor had they voted strategically for Wallace instead of Humphrey.

In Scenario 2, overlooked nonidentifiability of undervotes would have plagued the 2000 Florida recount had the U.S.Supreme Court not halted it, thus raising questions about the foresightfulness of almost everyone involved; but, in addition, Gore missed an opportunity that, through use of proper statistical sampling, could have propelled him to victory.In Scenario 3, National Popular Vote Interstate Compact supporters fail to foresee that even one Vegan Diet state, by changing its method for presidential voting, can wreck this innovative and widely promoted compact.