You have 200,200 extra votes to give to any candidates who ran in 2020. Who do you give them to?

[KoopaDaQuick 🇵🇸]

Inspired by a tweet I saw.

"You have a total of 200,200 extra votes, which you can give to any candidates from 2020. (So you could give 100k to one candidate, and 50k to each of two others.) Primaries and generals are both fair game. How do you spend your extra votes?" Additionally, I'll add a rule that runoff elections held during 2021 held for 2020 races, like the Georgia Senate elections last January, will be included. You may also add votes to ballot measures.

Here's how I'd do it.

Federal Government
+45,045 to Al Gross (AK-SEN)
+70,422 to Sara Gideon (ME-SEN)
+1,523 to TJ Cox (CA-22)
+401 to Christy Smith (CA-25)
+6,145 to Gil Cisneros (CA-39)
+10,742 to Abby Finkenauer (IA-01)
+7 to Rita Hart (IA-02)
+11,344 to Dan Feehan (MN-01)
+15,365 to Kara Eastman (NE-02)
+110 to Anthony Brindisi (NY-22)
+11,703 to Gina Ortiz Jones (TX-23)
+4,585 to Candace Valenzuela (TX-24)
+3,766 to Ben McAdams (UT-04)
+10,832 to John Cowan (GA-14, GOP Primary)

State Government
+33 to Jose Javier Rodriguez (FL House 37)
+976 to Rhonda Martin (IA Senate 9)
+3,955 to Tom Courtney (IA Senate 44)
+414 to Jeanne Dietsch (NH Senate 9)
+198 to Shannon Chandley (NH Senate 11)
+1,238 to Sara Flick (MN Senate 25)
+909 to Aleta Borrud (MN Senate 26)
+69 to Darryl Perry (NH Governor)
+402 to Cheri Beasley (NC Supreme Court Chief Justice)

200,184 votes spent, the other 16 votes shall be spent adding one vote to each race where I forgot to add one to the margin of the opponent's victory.

What would you do with your 200,200 votes?

[Motorcity]

I'd elect Democratic senators in Maine, North Carolina, and Alaska

I was split between Iowa and North Carolina. But long term, NC will be easier to hold as long as we have an incumbent. Iowa is lost

[Chunk Yogurt for President!]

Too lazy to do the math right now, but enough to make Tulsi Gabbard win the first few primaries.

[Shaula🏳️‍⚧️]

2200 to Bernie in Iowa to guarantee an undisputed win on caucus night
155732 to Bernie in South Carolina to destroy Biden's momentum and probably force him to drop out.
As Bernie is basically guaranteed the nomination now, I'll give him whatever's left to help him against Trump (even though I think he'd win anyway). Half to Wisconsin and half to Pennsylvania.

[CityByTheValley]

Add 9 House Democrats and 2 Senate Democrats as outlined below, and flip the Minnesota Senate, AZ House and Senate, NH House and Senate, and Michigan House.

Rita Hart - 7 Votes
Anthony Brindisi - 110 Votes
Christy Smith - 334 Votes
TJ Cox - 1,523 Votes
Ben McAdams - 3,766 Votes
Gil Cisneros - 4,110 Votes
Candace Valenzuela - 4,644 Votes
Joe Cunningham - 5,416 Votes
Harley Rouda - 8,377 Votes

Al Gross- 45,045 Votes
Sara Gideon - 48,766 Votes*

* Assumed that 90% of Lisa Savage Votes go to Gideon and 10% of Max Linn's Votes do the same. The remaining go to Collins.

Aleta Borrud (MN SD 26) - 910 Votes

Coral Evans (AZ HD 6) - 2,056 Votes
Gerae Peten (AZ HD 4) - 2,977 Votes

Douglas Ervin (AZ SD 20) - 4,676 Votes
AJ Kurdoglu (AZ SD 17) - 6,527 Votes

Jennifer Bernet Hillsborough 4 - 18 Votes
David Doherty Merrimack 20 - 21 Votes
Emmanuel Krasner Strafford 2 - 24 Votes
Bruce Tatro Cheshire 15 - 52 Votes
Richard Osborne Grafton 7 - 53 Votes
Mark Vallone Rockingham 9 - 58 Votes
Natalie Quevedo Cheshire 13 - 60 Votes
Liz McConnell Rockingham 11 - 60 Votes
Jane Alden Belknap 4 - 77 Votes
William Bordy Hillsborough 28 - 87 Votes
Jerry Stringham Grafton 5 - 88 Votes
Wendy Thomas Hillsborough 21 - 88 Votes
Clyde Carson Merrimack 7 - 88 Votes
David Woodbury Hillsborough 5 - 97 Votes

Shannon Chandley (NH SD 11) - 199 Votes
Jeanne Dietsch (NH SD 9) - 413 Votes
Melanie Levesque (NH SD 12) - 831 Votes

Sheryl Kennedy (MI HD 48) - 490 Votes
Dan O'Neil (MI HD 104) - 2,303 Votes
Barb Anness (MI HD 45) - 2,624 Votes
Brian Elder (MI HD 96) - 4,328 Votes

The remaining votes aren't enough to flip a Senate seat and only add around 5 House Seats to Dems with no other State Legislatures able to flip as far as I can see.

Just because it was so close I'll give 402 Votes to Cheri Beasley as well in North Carolina's Supreme Court Race.

I'll use another 45,253 Votes out of the remaining 48,403 Votes to make sure Biden wins Vermont in the primary.

[支持核绿派 (Greens4Nuclear)]

Add 9 House Democrats and 2 Senate Democrats as outlined below, and flip the Minnesota Senate, AZ House and Senate, NH House and Senate, and Michigan House.

Rita Hart - 7 Votes
Anthony Brindisi - 110 Votes
Christy Smith - 334 Votes
TJ Cox - 1,523 Votes
Ben McAdams - 3,766 Votes
Gil Cisneros - 4,110 Votes
Candace Valenzuela - 4,644 Votes
Joe Cunningham - 5,416 Votes
Harley Rouda - 8,377 Votes

Al Gross- 45,045 Votes
Sara Gideon - 48,766 Votes*

* Assumed that 90% of Lisa Savage Votes go to Gideon and 10% of Max Linn's Votes do the same. The remaining go to Collins.

Aleta Borrud (MN SD 26) - 910 Votes

Coral Evans (AZ HD 6) - 2,056 Votes
Gerae Peten (AZ HD 4) - 2,977 Votes

Douglas Ervin (AZ SD 20) - 4,676 Votes
AJ Kurdoglu (AZ SD 17) - 6,527 Votes

Jennifer Bernet Hillsborough 4 - 18 Votes
David Doherty Merrimack 20 - 21 Votes
Emmanuel Krasner Strafford 2 - 24 Votes
Bruce Tatro Cheshire 15 - 52 Votes
Richard Osborne Grafton 7 - 53 Votes
Mark Vallone Rockingham 9 - 58 Votes
Natalie Quevedo Cheshire 13 - 60 Votes
Liz McConnell Rockingham 11 - 60 Votes
Jane Alden Belknap 4 - 77 Votes
William Bordy Hillsborough 28 - 87 Votes
Jerry Stringham Grafton 5 - 88 Votes
Wendy Thomas Hillsborough 21 - 88 Votes
Clyde Carson Merrimack 7 - 88 Votes
David Woodbury Hillsborough 5 - 97 Votes

Shannon Chandley (NH SD 11) - 199 Votes
Jeanne Dietsch (NH SD 9) - 413 Votes
Melanie Levesque (NH SD 12) - 831 Votes

Sheryl Kennedy (MI HD 48) - 490 Votes
Dan O'Neil (MI HD 104) - 2,303 Votes
Barb Anness (MI HD 45) - 2,624 Votes
Brian Elder (MI HD 96) - 4,328 Votes

The remaining votes aren't enough to flip a Senate seat and only add around 5 House Seats to Dems with no other State Legislatures able to flip as far as I can see.

Just because it was so close I'll give 402 Votes to Cheri Beasley as well in North Carolina's Supreme Court Race.

This, except I’d use the remaining 48k votes to ensure Warren gets 2nd in the MA Super Tuesday D primary and trails Biden by as little as possible.

[Mexican Wolf]

+63,000 to Steve Bullock (MT-SEN flips)
+71,000 to Sara Gideon (ME-SEN flips, since I think the 2nd round recalculations would ultimately favor Gideon)
+1,600 to TJ Cox (CA-21 flips)
+360 to Christy Smith (CA-25 flips)
+26,550 to Diane Mitsch Bush (CO-3 flips)
+40 to Rita Hart (IA-2 flips)
+17,000 to Kara Eastman (NE-2 flips)
+150 to Anthony Brindisi (NY-22 flips)
+14,000 to Gina Ortiz Jones (TX-23 flips)
+5,000 to Candace Valanzuela (TX-24 flips)
+1,000 to Aleta Borrud (MN State Senate District 26 and the whole Senate flips to the Dems)
+500 to Cheri Beasley (NC Supreme Court Justice flips)

I had to make some tough choices (like letting Greg Gianforte keep the governorship and still having Al Gross lose) and I probably could've spent many of my votes more efficiently, but these are the main races whose outcomes I wanted to be different. The Dems gain two Senate seats, have eight more House seats for a more comfortable majority, flip a state senate and gain a trifecta, and defend a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court. Also, Lauren Boebert loses.

[Oregon Eagle Politics]

Elect

Rita Hart
Anthony Brindisi
Christy Smith
TJ Cox
Ben McAdams
Gil Cisneros
Sara Gideon
Al Gross

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

+6 to Rita Hart (IA-2)
+110 to Anthony Brindisi (NY-22)
+334 to Christy Smith (CA-25)
+786 to Abby Finkenauer (IA-1)
+1,523 to TJ Cox (CA-21)
+3,766 to Ben McAdams (UT-4)
+4,110 to Gil Cisneros (CA-39)
+4,644 to Candace Valenzuela (TX-24)
+5,417 to Joe Cunningham (SC-1)
+45,045 to Al Gross (AK-SEN)
+61,012 to Steve Bullock (MT-SEN)
+70,422 to Sarah Gideon (ME-SEN)

Split the remainder (3,026) between local candidates.

[Chips]

Give Trump the needed votes in WI, AZ and GA. So about 42,321 are lost. That leaves me with 157,879. I'd go to Alaska and give all of those votes to Jo Jorgensen. I'll add a rule that I can remove 25,000 of one candidate's votes so I remove 25,000 Alaska votes from Trump. Jorgensen is at 166,176, Trump is at 164,951 so a margin of just over 1,000 votes for Jorgensen. It would be 269 Trump, 266 Biden, 3 Jorgensen with maybe the potential for the House to select Jorgensen as president and we could finally have a third-party as president.

[jaichind]

Give votes to Trump for him to win WI GA and AZ.  Then allocate the rest toward wins for Perdue to win on the first round in GA, then James in MI.

[Left Wing]

Senate is most important thing in the long term so:

45,045 to Al Gross
60,712 to Steve Bullock
48,766 to Sara Gideon (As was pointed out earlier we can be pretty sure she wins with this vote total)

Next most important thing is Texas State house because of redistricting implications:
223 to Brandy Chambers
850 to Sharon Hirsch
1,639 to Joanna Cattanach
2,100 to Akilah Bacy
2,879 to Jeff Whitfield
3,003 to L. Sarah DeMarchant
3,246 to Lorenzo Sanchez
3,785 to Gina Calanni

Next is North Carolina State House for redistricting implications:
704 to Frances Vinnell Jackson
1,294 to Dan Besse
1,371 to Gail Young
2,295 to Sydney Batch
2,051 to Christy Clark
1,421 to Kimberly Hardy
2,458 to Nicole Quick
3,920 to Aimy Steele
2,806 to Carl Ray Russell
3,359 to Joe Sam Queen

Minnesota State Senate:
910 votes to Aleta Borrud

So those are basically all of the state legislatures that it's possible to flip, now I'm just going to add as many house seats to the Democratic majority as possible:
7 votes to Rita Hart
110 to Anthony Brindisi
334 to Christy Smith
1,523 to TJ Cox
3,766 to Ben McAdams

If my math is correct I'm down to just 473 votes so I'm just going to save random candidates who barely lost
402 votes to Cheri Beasley
33 votes to Jose Javier Rodriguez
15 votes to Stan Frownfelter in the primary

Okay I'm literally completely out of ideas, give 23 votes to Biden in Elliott County, I guess.

[South Dakota Democrat]

+6 to Rita Hart (IA-2)
+110 to Anthony Brindisi (NY-22)
+334 to Christy Smith (CA-25)
+786 to Abby Finkenauer (IA-1)
+1,523 to TJ Cox (CA-21)
+3,766 to Ben McAdams (UT-4)
+4,110 to Gil Cisneros (CA-39)
+4,644 to Candace Valenzuela (TX-24)
+5,417 to Cal Cunningham (SC-1)
+45,045 to Al Gross (AK-SEN)
+61,012 to Steve Bullock (MT-SEN)
+70,422 to Sarah Gideon (ME-SEN)

Split the remainder (3,026) between local candidates.

Think you mean Joe.

[South Dakota Democrat]

Give Trump the needed votes in WI, AZ and GA. So about 42,321 are lost. That leaves me with 157,879. I'd go to Alaska and give all of those votes to Jo Jorgensen. I'll add a rule that I can remove 25,000 of one candidate's votes so I remove 25,000 Alaska votes from Trump. Jorgensen is at 166,176, Trump is at 164,951 so a margin of just over 1,000 votes for Jorgensen. It would be 269 Trump, 266 Biden, 3 Jorgensen with maybe the potential for the House to select Jorgensen as president and we could finally have a third-party as president.

Why on earth would you do that?

[Chips]

Give Trump the needed votes in WI, AZ and GA. So about 42,321 are lost. That leaves me with 157,879. I'd go to Alaska and give all of those votes to Jo Jorgensen. I'll add a rule that I can remove 25,000 of one candidate's votes so I remove 25,000 Alaska votes from Trump. Jorgensen is at 166,176, Trump is at 164,951 so a margin of just over 1,000 votes for Jorgensen. It would be 269 Trump, 266 Biden, 3 Jorgensen with maybe the potential for the House to select Jorgensen as president and we could finally have a third-party as president.

Why on earth would you do that?

Part of a greater scheme to try to get Jorgensen elected.

[South Dakota Democrat]

Give Trump the needed votes in WI, AZ and GA. So about 42,321 are lost. That leaves me with 157,879. I'd go to Alaska and give all of those votes to Jo Jorgensen. I'll add a rule that I can remove 25,000 of one candidate's votes so I remove 25,000 Alaska votes from Trump. Jorgensen is at 166,176, Trump is at 164,951 so a margin of just over 1,000 votes for Jorgensen. It would be 269 Trump, 266 Biden, 3 Jorgensen with maybe the potential for the House to select Jorgensen as president and we could finally have a third-party as president.

Why on earth would you do that?

Part of a greater scheme to try to get Jorgensen elected.

Kind of a dumb scheme. Trump would 100% win election in the House if he had 269 electoral votes.

[brucejoel99]

95,634 to Cal Cunningham, just to keep the Helms Hex alive

In all seriousness, this is one easy list to produce: 45,045 to Al Gross, 60,712 to Steve Bullock, & 70,423 to Sara Gideon.

In terms of the House, it doesn't really need to be touched: control is control there. If at all possible, the remaining 24,020 would be best utilized in the results of any state legislative races that could actually flip the partisan control of chambers.

[MATTROSE94]

95,634 to Cal Cunningham, just to keep the Helms Hex alive

In all seriousness, this is one easy list to produce: 45,045 to Al Gross, 60,712 to Steve Bullock, & 70,423 to Sara Gideon.

In terms of the House, it doesn't really need to be touched: control is control there. If at all possible, the remaining 24,020 would be best utilized in the results of any state legislative races that could actually flip the partisan control of chambers.

That’s what I would do as well if I had 200,200 extra votes.

[Young Conservative]

SENATORS MARTHA MCSALLY, JOHN JAMES, and DAVID PERDUE HERE WE COME!

[brucejoel99]

SENATORS MARTHA MCSALLY, JOHN JAMES, and DAVID PERDUE HERE WE COME!

McSally needed 78,807 more votes to win, James needed 92,336 more votes to win, & Perdue needed 54,945 more votes to win, all of which adds up to 226,088 more votes having been needed for all of them to have won, so if those are your options, then you're already 25,888 votes over your allotted number of 200,200 extra votes.

[Nightcore Nationalist]

"Are you a Democrat or a Republican"?

SENATORS MARTHA MCSALLY, JOHN JAMES, and DAVID PERDUE HERE WE COME!

McSally needed 78,807 more votes to win, James needed 92,336 more votes to win, & Perdue needed 54,945 more votes to win, all of which adds up to 226,088 more votes having been needed for all of them to have won, so if those are your options, then you're already 25,888 votes over your allotted number of 200,200 extra votes.

Perdue was only like .07% from clearing the 50% bar to prevent a run off.

[brucejoel99]

SENATORS MARTHA MCSALLY, JOHN JAMES, and DAVID PERDUE HERE WE COME!

McSally needed 78,807 more votes to win, James needed 92,336 more votes to win, & Perdue needed 54,945 more votes to win, all of which adds up to 226,088 more votes having been needed for all of them to have won, so if those are your options, then you're already 25,888 votes over your allotted number of 200,200 extra votes.

Perdue was only like .07% from clearing the 50% bar to prevent a run off.

Ah, if we're just talking Nov. instead of Jan., then Perdue would've needed an additional 26,942 votes - with no additional votes being cast for Ossoff or the Libertarian - in order to prevent a run-off, so in tandem with McSally's 78,807 & James' 92,336, allocating those extra votes in such fashion would just barely be doable at 198,085, with just 2,115 votes to spare!

Also, unrelated but you might wanna shorten your display name, as it's currently wrecking havoc on your formatting size.

[Kleine Scheiße]

every single one of them goes to wayne messam in the iowa caucus

[beesley]

A lot of people seem to be giving the exact number of votes needed, but I would actually give fewer candidates a bit more given all the talk about illegitimate elections.

[Motorcity]

I would flip the NC, ME, and AK senate races