Election Fraud: Consider altered and miscounted ballots.
Posted by Izzy Weird on March 14, 2022, 5:54 pm
If you need to create a 100,000 spread between two candidates you can produce 100,000 fake ballots.
But if you have the opportunity to either alter ballots or miscount candidates from one of the races then you get a 2x leverage. Each ballot altered subtracts one vote from one candidate and adds one vote to the opponent. So if you need 100,000 votes you only need to alter or miscount 50,000 ballots.
Note that this will tend to preserve the down-ballot victories for one party while stealing the election for the other party in just one of the races on the ballot.
Another fraud tactic that results in down-ballot anomalies.
Let's say you have printed up tens or hundreds of thousands of fake ballots. But to make them appear legitimate you have people marking and signing them with a pen. This process can be both time consuming and expensive for large numbers of ballots.
If you are trying to rig one race you only need to vote that race, and leave the rest of the ballot blank or "under voted". You only have to make one mark and sign the ballot (or envelope).
One result of this is that the fake ballots will have no effect on down-ballot races.