I think that what generally is trying to describe is similar to a voting scheme that was programmed into the Gems system, called fractional voting. It’s not exactly weighted average, and it was uncovered in investigation of election fraud in Tennessee.
In concept, the machines had a feature that allowed programming of the % of the vote that would be assigned to the categories. This was all in the machine, but not seen by the whole numbers that the poll workers would see.
Bev Harris wrote a book about it. She’s a Dem but she has said that she suspects that Hillary stole at least 5 or 6 states in this election. However, without access to those areas can’t tell for sure.
The chatter that I heard was that in the Northern Blue States that flipped Red, the Pubbies had a campaign GOTV that told the voters to use paper ballots, and not the machines to avoid fraud. I have no idea if this is true.
Here’s a link to some detailed information on how the scam works:
http://blackboxvoting.org/fraction-magic-1/
SUMMARY OF THE INFORMATION
This report summarizes the results of our review of the GEMS election management system, which counts approximately 25 percent of all votes in the United States.
The results of this study demonstrate that a fractional vote feature is embedded in each GEMS application which can be used to invisibly, yet radically, alter election outcomes by pre-setting desired vote percentages to redistribute votes.
This tampering is not visible to election observers, even if they are standing in the room and watching the computer. Use of the decimalized vote feature is unlikely to be detected by auditing or canvass procedures, and can be applied across large jurisdictions in less than 60 seconds.
It is radically different from the notion of visible subtotals being later manipulated in the tally process.