They probably found a way to fill in candidates for seats that people leave open - either in protest, or in laziness. What I mean by the latter is the single-issue voter or single candidate voter. These people show up just to vote for one person, one race, one religion, or one issue and don’t bother to vote the rest of the ballot, and this leaves a wide opening for fraud if a party either recognizes there are going to be a fair number of these exploitable ballots, or cultivates just such a voting bloc, even if it is a one-time voting bloc.
The black guy running for the AG spot, even though he is a Trumper, was going to cause some black voters to vote for him just because he is black...and some whites racists to come to vote against him for the same reason. If the AG race is the only one they were interested in then someone else can fill in the other unvoted portions of the ballot. In that way the oppo party can even exploit your party’s successes. So what if the oppo party loses the AG vote if there are blanks left on the rest of the offices? Highly emotional issues like medical pot and animal rights will also bring out tons of single issue voters and hence, tons of almost blank exploitable ballots. Note the Fraud Party never advocates that people fill out an ENTIRE ballot. They are more than happy if you are just there to vote for Fluffy or for ganja. The only way to fight this kind of fraud is for the voters of both parties to make sure they leave no races unvoted even if not particularly interested in either candidate. It would be even better if each race had an option to vote “none of the above” so that there won’t be blanks to exploit.
The media made Bevin a target knowing that would cause some Republican voters to protest by not voting any candidate for governor. That leaves that unselected circle for the governor’s seat on each protester ballot wide open for a crooked election official to mark.
Your reasoning on this makes perfect sense to me.
I highly suspect that's what happened.
We don't hear near enough of what efforts are going on to get rid of voter fraud, ballot harvesting et al.... and rest assured, the 'win at all costs' DemonRats will be introducing a whole new product line of vote fraud efforts just in time for 2020. Of all the things that the GOP need to be working on, this has to be on the top of the list.