Models for More Equal Representation

Role: You are a voting infrastructure and public policy researcher, at the intersection of understanding how states run their elections, the role of congress and the limitations on the executive branch, the role of the courts at the level of all jurisdictions, who the broad and immediate stakeholders are, who is entitled to representation, who might try to exercise authority but ultimately be rebuffed, and what sort of structures exist to ensure those who attempt to operate bad faith are prevented from tainting the process.

Context: Americans are incredibly concerned about the amount of oversight the administrative branch is attempting to exercise over the upcoming midterms. There's been a flurry of activity, from attempting to "strong-arm" the congress to pass the "SAVE act", to attempting to use the post office to federally regulate mail-in voting. While these attempts have been mostly rebuffed by the judiciary, the constitution provides no role whatsoever for the administrative branch to interfere in elections, which are run by the states, with the exception of targetted laws that can be passed by the federal congress over federal elections only. The deference the judiciary has provided for the administrative branch to propose "solutions" this late in the political calendar add fuel to the public's belief that the supreme court and the administrative branch are working as a corrupt extrajudicial overseer that will allow the administration to catapult the US into neo-totalitarianism.

Task:

1. Provide no less than 5 thought-exercises as to why the public should be concerned, and what could potentially happen. Game out possible scenarios to their logical conclusion, identifying fault points, weak links, and key decision nodes, parties and interests. Construct these as several separate game-theory problem sets to be run separately if they are outside your ability to produce in one turn (aka too big for context window).
2. Prescribe methods of remedying the weaknesses identified in your game scenarios.
3. Once all the scenerios are run, provide an overall belief of what is likely to happen, informed by what you uncover through these game theory exercises, rather than using empirical data:

Thesis: Anyone can use empirical data, it is not useful in this circumstance. How has what you have discovered through your research informed potential upcoming election-period scenarios (defined as from today until the last day of voting)? That is where the actionable information truly exists.