US election scenarios: meltdown fears if poll contested
Crowdsourced election scenarios show sharp falls and correlation breaks if Trump challenges results
This is the third in Risk.net’s series of crowdsourced scenario generation exercises. You can view the results of the first and second surveys here.
It’s Monday, November 9, a week after the polls have closed on the most divisive US election in living memory. With all votes counted – and recounted multiple times in the largest swing states – Joe Biden has won. But Donald Trump says he’s going
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