White House renames midterms 'super intelligence' ahead of Tuesday's vote
The Federal Election Commission will certify Tuesday's midterm elections as a single confidence score from zero to fourteen, not as winners and losers
Ballot printers in fourteen states worked through Sunday night on a last-minute instruction from the White House. The 2026 midterm elections would no longer be called elections. They would be called "super intelligence."
The Office of Management and Budget sent the directive to county clerks at 9:14 p.m. on Sunday, according to a copy shared with SnarkWire. The memo says Tuesday's vote will no longer produce winners and losers. It will produce a single number.
That number is a confidence score between zero and fourteen. The Federal Election Commission is to certify the score on Wednesday morning. Fourteen means complete super intelligence. Zero means the American people have not yet finished thinking.
"This brings our democracy in line with the technology that will define the century," said Dana Whitfield, a spokesperson for the Office of Management and Budget. "A binary outcome is a legacy format. The American people deserve a gradient."
Under the new system, all 435 House seats and 35 Senate seats will be tabulated as one national score. There will be no majority party. There will be a prevailing mood, expressed to one decimal place.
Lena Ortiz, a spokesperson for Democratic Senate candidate Troy Jackson of Maine, said the campaign learned of the change from a push alert while canvassing in Portland. "We spent fourteen months telling voters their ballot would decide control of the Senate," Ortiz said. "Now the Senate is a confidence interval."
Voters who arrived at a polling site in Minneapolis on Tuesday morning found a new question at the bottom of the ballot. It asked them to rate the nation's current level of super intelligence on a scale of zero to fourteen, with zero being "not at all" and fourteen being "fully."
Guam, which reported the first results of the day under the old rules, will be recertified. The territory's governorship and its nonvoting delegate to Congress must now be expressed as a single number. Local officials said they would need until Thursday to convert a governor into a decimal.
At a polling site in Minneapolis's Somali community, volunteer Hassan Abdi described the new question. "They said it was optional," Abdi said. "Then they said it was the election."
