Carver High Student Body Election



The Carver High Student Body Election is a student election that took place in the Election Universe. This event was depicted in Election in 1999.

Background
At George Washington Carver High School in Omaha, a student election was to be held to determine the following school year's Student Body Council. For most of the school year, Tracy Enid Flick was running unopposed for Student Body President. Then, at the insistence of Civics, Current Events, and US History teacher Jim McAllister, Paul Metzler decides to run against Tracy. For her own reasons, Paul's younger sister, Tammy Metlzer soon petitions to run as well.

Mr McAllister has a fear of being set up by Tracy for a scandal, one which led to his friend and fellow teacher, Dave Novotny to be fired from the school. Jim is hopeful that Paul can defeat Tracy. With the school election closing in, Tracy in a fit of anger tears down many of the Presidential election posters, including one of hers and also all of Paul's. Tammy happens to be on notice Tracy dumping the trashed signs in a dumpster, but uses the opportunity to take the blame instead so she can be expelled from Carver, a school that she loathes attending. Jim still suspects that Tracy was the culprit, but is unable to prove so.

Election Day
On May 4, 1993 the Carver High Student Election takes place. Tracy votes for herself, but Paul, feeling it is not right to do the same, votes for Tracy which winds up making the difference during the final vote count.

Though Jim has become sidetracked by personal matters and a bee sting from the day before, he still shows up for work to help with the election, including the final ballot count. He catches Tracy spying on his classroom to check with one of the students inside and see how the results were going. After being given the thumbs up that she had won, though narrowly, Tracy begins celebrating only to be caught by Jim who looks out the window of the room from his desk. Enraged and sensing that Tracy could become a monster if not stopped now decides to take two ballots and throw them into his trash can near his desk. This alters the results from Tracy winning by a single vote to Paul now winning by the same margin.

As the school day comes to a close, an assembly is held at the high school gymnasium. Paul is announced as the winner and Tracy is shocked after being assured she had won.

The Next Day
Too distracted to cover his own tracks, Jim McAllister is summoned to Principal Walt Hendricks' office where he is confronted about the two trashed votes found in his trash can by the janitor. Tracy is announced as the new winner of the election and Jim is made to quietly resign from Carver High.

Aftermath
The election scandal made the news, with Trent Pappas of the Omaha World-Herald reporting on it soon after.

After spending almost a year in Omaha, Jim McAllister leaves for New York City where he eventually is hired as a tour guide at the New York Museum of Natural History.

Paul Metzler enrolls at the University of Nebraska while his sister, Tammy enrolls at a Catholic high school in Omaha which Tammy loves.

After spending her senior year at Carver High as Student Body President, Tracy enrolls at Georgetown University in Washington, DC and soon makes political connections while there.

Epilogue
In 1998, while still working as a tour guide at the museum in New York City, Jim takes a trip to Washington for a conference. While there, he spots Tracy getting into a limousine with US Representative Mike Geiger of Omaha. While unsure if Tracy noticed him, Jim threw his cup of Pepsi at the limo before running away.

Danaverse Connection
Members of the Council of the Multiverse have checked in with this reality after an apparent breach, which after investigation turned out to be a message printed to the fourth wall for audiences in which this story has been fictionalized into a movie. Members also check Tracy's status post 1998, discovering that she will graduate from Georgetown in 1998 while also interning for US Representative Geiger. Tracy then works as a Republican lobbyist before successfully running for Mayor of Oamaha in 2000, being inaugurated in 2001. On September 11, 2001 Tracy meets secretly with President George W Bush at Offutt Air Force Base in the aftermath of the 9/11 Attacks. Tracy then runs for and is elected as Governor of Nebraska in 2008, being inaugurated in 2009. Tracy serves two terms and is elected President of the United States in 2016, being inaugurated in 2017.

Paul is seen as working in the family business while Tammy a radical feminist, even verbally jousting with Tracy in the lead-up to the Presidential Election in 2016.

The Council of the Multiverse view this reality as a "mild dystopia."

Information
During Election, Director Alexander Payne decided to put an Easter Egg message into the newspaper report about the scandal, encouraging people who paused the film to read the news article to rent Citizen Ruth, a previous movie he had directed instead.

Thanks to the movie, the name Tracy Flick has become a pejorative for overachieving women.