The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow: An Instant Message with Excitable Music is a play written by Rolin Jones that features an agoraphobic, obsessive-compulsive (perhaps also mildly autistic) girl genius who decides to seek out her birth mother in China by creating a robot to go on the journey for her. She's also a secret subcontractor for the Department of Defense and relies on the help of a horny Mormon
Instead of choosing between the "lesser of two evils," what about just doing every election as instant runoff? You rank multiple candidates in order of preference, and the candidates that get the least votes are elimated. Repeat until one remains.