Ohio woman, 94, designed Electoral College game

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A new board game to help students understand the Electoral College was designed by an Ohio woman who’s now 94.

Dorothy Schabeck, of Toledo, says she got the idea for “G.G.’s Red/Blue Electoral College Game” when she realized there was a lot she didn’t know about the process of electing a president while watched TV coverage of the 2008 returns. She tells The Blade newspaper of Toledo that G.G. stands for “great-grandmother.”

The game was introduced this year by Teacher’s Discovery, an educational publishing company in Auburn Hills, Mich. It includes marking pens and a map that can be wiped clean, 100 game cards and a spinner.

University of Toledo political science professor David Davis used it in one of his classes and says students loved it.