Sunday, June 10, 2007

It's game time--learn how the political game REALLY works!

Mike Musgrove - The New Political Games Make a Point - washingtonpost.com

Jonathan D. Aronson, a professor and political scientist at USC, is a little exasperated that Americans sometimes worry about the potential for voting-machine tampering when there may be a more fundamental -- though, perhaps, drier and harder-to-explain -- problem in how districts are drawn.

"My question was, why would you need to rig the voting machines if you'd already rigged the election by making seats safe?" he said. He took the issue to USC's game-design school to see whether it could build a game on the topic.

Find out how an election can be rigged and play the game at the game's website starting June 11th.

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