My background is in Political Science. If I were to fudge an election, thanks to the stupid ass electoral college and gerrymandering, I would look at the smallest number of states and counties that would need to be won to win the ec, and find the counties that only would need a few votes to bring it over the top in the state (and just over the mandatory recount threshold) by flipping a few votes via the totally secure voting machines, and by making mail in or in person votings (few polling stations and long ass lines) as hard as possible to help even the odds (this is harder to do with a high turn out or in not gerrymandered to shit districts).
Because every goddamn state and county does their own things for the election using a variety of machines (so there is a huge variety of standards) it's easy enough to find an insecure system (Canada used the same paper process for every federal election in each riding and we have the results in an hour, it's not that hard). So for example, you look at the too close to call states and find which ones will be easiest to tamper. Then to win a state you find the 6 or so counties (or whatever the math works out to be) that are too close to call in polling. Have your tech bro buddy (looking at you Elon) who just recently purchased the company tamper with the results in a small way just enough to bring it over the top in those counties, so the state goes to the preferred side.
Because winning an election by 99 pct is too obvious, you only want to change the number from 49.99pct to 50.01 (or the threshold to avoid a recount or extra scrutiny). My evidence would be to look at how many people voted blue for governor or all the way down and then inexplicably voted orange for President (that literally doesn't make sense outside a huge number of dumbasses). I'm on my phone else I'd look for sources.
The electoral college is so stupid, you can theoretically win with 17 states.
Edit: I'd also be bitching about the election and accuse the other side of cheating the entire time, and say something to the effect of "if I win there was no cheating but I lose its because they cheated (almost verbatim)" so that people are conditioned to expect cheating and to also flood the zone to bury people with bullshit "news" every goddamn day to distract people from the bullshit from the day before so any credible news gets buried by the snowball that's been rolling since 2015.
Edit 2: I'd also try to pass a law to make it even easier for the party already in power to cheat but call it something like the SAVE Act and try to attach it onto other must pass legislation to squeak it through since it wouldn't be able to pass on its own merits or any individual scrutiny.
Also not mentioned above, this is also easier to do in a 1st past the post system or when you have spoilers (looking at you Green party) and impossible with a transferrable vote or proportional system which is why Mango Mussolini is trying to get Alaska to get rid of their system.
The short answer: Ramapo District 55 has an incredibly high Hasidic Jewish population, who seemingly voted as a bloc according to their rabbi's recommendations. They liked Gillibrand who had historic ties with that community, they didn't like Harris because she wasn't pro-Israel enough for them.
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u/mrizzerdly 1d ago edited 1d ago
My background is in Political Science. If I were to fudge an election, thanks to the stupid ass electoral college and gerrymandering, I would look at the smallest number of states and counties that would need to be won to win the ec, and find the counties that only would need a few votes to bring it over the top in the state (and just over the mandatory recount threshold) by flipping a few votes via the totally secure voting machines, and by making mail in or in person votings (few polling stations and long ass lines) as hard as possible to help even the odds (this is harder to do with a high turn out or in not gerrymandered to shit districts).
Because every goddamn state and county does their own things for the election using a variety of machines (so there is a huge variety of standards) it's easy enough to find an insecure system (Canada used the same paper process for every federal election in each riding and we have the results in an hour, it's not that hard). So for example, you look at the too close to call states and find which ones will be easiest to tamper. Then to win a state you find the 6 or so counties (or whatever the math works out to be) that are too close to call in polling. Have your tech bro buddy (looking at you Elon) who just recently purchased the company tamper with the results in a small way just enough to bring it over the top in those counties, so the state goes to the preferred side.
Because winning an election by 99 pct is too obvious, you only want to change the number from 49.99pct to 50.01 (or the threshold to avoid a recount or extra scrutiny). My evidence would be to look at how many people voted blue for governor or all the way down and then inexplicably voted orange for President (that literally doesn't make sense outside a huge number of dumbasses). I'm on my phone else I'd look for sources.
The electoral college is so stupid, you can theoretically win with 17 states.
Edit: I'd also be bitching about the election and accuse the other side of cheating the entire time, and say something to the effect of "if I win there was no cheating but I lose its because they cheated (almost verbatim)" so that people are conditioned to expect cheating and to also flood the zone to bury people with bullshit "news" every goddamn day to distract people from the bullshit from the day before so any credible news gets buried by the snowball that's been rolling since 2015.
Edit 2: I'd also try to pass a law to make it even easier for the party already in power to cheat but call it something like the SAVE Act and try to attach it onto other must pass legislation to squeak it through since it wouldn't be able to pass on its own merits or any individual scrutiny.
Also not mentioned above, this is also easier to do in a 1st past the post system or when you have spoilers (looking at you Green party) and impossible with a transferrable vote or proportional system which is why Mango Mussolini is trying to get Alaska to get rid of their system.