“the cat Might be alive or Might be dead, but it is certainly never true that it can be both.”
Was the cat sick before he got put in the box? Was there food and water in the box?
Altering the cat’s pre conditions and preparatory box activities may improve the cat’s chances of remaining alive.... but it doesn’t alter the basic question....the cat might be a live or it might be dead...
….just as altering conditions that affect sub particle spins might affect the calculus and conclusions of certain experiments and bring about a desired positive result but the desired result still might not happen.
We might have seen that result happen during the 2016 election. They were so sure they had Clinton elected that when she was defeated, I think some seriously thought there was interference from some source. That tells me that there was a lot of planned secret sauce cheating going on somewhere but Trump got unplanned support from voters in places that they had not planned for and it spoiled their strategy. Hence the extreme anger of the Dem’s against the Electoral college and their disparaging of small town folks and the out of the way voting districts that they couldn’t get their cheating hooks into.(The main cheating seems to be repeat counting of ballots such as 51 voters came in that day in one district in Detroit with 50 voting for Hillary and 1 vote for Trump. The ballots were recast 6 times so that Hillary got 300 votes and trump got 6 votes. The ballot lock box read 306 votes but when the Michigan recount began they found that the box only had 51 ballots in it and only 51 persons had come into the voting precinct that day. Talk about prepping the “cat’s box”!)