This is far enough in the future to not be pinged for Current Politics, yes?
This is it, lads, the straw that broke the camel's back. The last 'Democratic' election before the outright beginning of the American Civil Conflict.
So the Democrats are in a bit of an electoral pickle. They lost the last election due to outright meddling, and they had spent the last four years banking on that to essentially hand them a fair win this time around. The new Secretary of General Affairs, however, was far from willing to compromise. In fact, the sheer amount of preventative legislation pumped out of the SecGen's office had only worked to bolster the returns GOP strongholds saw come the midterms. Speaker McMahan enforced a strict new ruling that any objection seen as "unbefitting of congressional standards" would result in said congressperson being forced out by the Sargent at Arms. Yet there was some hope in the form of Representative Kiazolu, spunky BLM regional director, heir to AOC's safe House seat after her imprisonment, and fragrant presidential hopeful since she first blipped on the social scene, she seemed to hold over a strange brand of populist celebrity status not seen since the days of Greta Thunberg. Poor Greta Thunberg.
Things seemed to be going well enough come election day. The Dems had shown strongly in both primary results (in spite of gerrymandering and voter disenfranchisement), gallups showed Kiazolu as the generally agreed victor of the livescast debate, and her passionate rallies routinely drew thousands. Then, of course, something went wrong. Militant extremists stormed Oregon ballot stations in a series of coordinated attacks, partly in collaboration with rouge elements of the state law enforcement and what they referred to as 'sleepers', or members of their group planted as tellers or venue security. Five were pronounced dead in Josephine, four dead in the neighbouring Klamath. Umatilla, Walco, Gilliam and Polk all had their polling stations burned to the ground, while an unlucky civic centre in Malheur was 'taken hostage' by members of the Oregon Three Percenters, all of whom eventually escaped capture. Millions of ballot boxes went up in smoke, and the SCOTUS claimed that, since the race was so close, a victor could not be declared unless another emergency election was held sooner - a difficult task, seeing as how the streets of the west coast, not just Oregon, were now active warzones, with wardog right-wing militiamen faced of with enraged crowds of ANTIFA, vigilante groups and a random assortment of residents with their own agendas. Martial Law was supposed to kick in any day now, but the President was, as the SecGen put it, indisposed.
Then came the Fated Elector.
No, not the faithless elector, tho they were technically just that. The 'fated' part makes it sound destined.
Dennis Goodryke, board member for the Newport Beach Home Owners Association and a recently installed state delegate for California, voted against the wishes of his constituents, ratifying his single EC vote for Bundy. This was enough to give the magic 270, and the incumbent administration followed by issuing Executive Orders to stall any further recounts. As you could expect, the United States lost their collective minds.
