Bonus Ep 11: Playing Politics (US Election 2020)

With the US election around the corner, we take a look at an innovative research project that has used games to predict the outcome of Trump v Biden. Ever wondered how on earth Trump will get out of this? It's a real rollercoaster, this one. Protests, sabotage and even a secession crisis.

Oh, and as a special treat for this bonus episode, Milos reveals his ISIS-inspired stripper name...

'Where the System May Break'

A war-game exercise simulating the 2020 election unmasked some key vulnerabilities

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/how-2020-election-could-go-wrong/614842/

Check out a PDF of the game here: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7013152/Preventing-a-Disrupted-Presidential-Election-and.pdf 

Game Results

Game One: Ambiguous Result

Game Two: Clear Biden Victory

Game Three: Clear Trump Win

Game Four: Narrow Biden Win

Here's the grossly disingenuous and misleading Republican attack ad on Joe Biden and Black Lives Matter, 'Meet Joe Biden's Supporters' https://youtu.be/JmXj613HPN8

For a sense of these kind of games in action, take a look at the Shut Up & Sit Down 'Alien Invasion' megagame: https://youtu.be/hN71v9H_gg8

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