I watched this video, then last night, invited my brother to watch it again with me, and both he and I had EXACTLY the same reaction that you did. We talked about this until about 2 AM.
We are both IT people, so we had a degree of commonality in our view of this.
When we were watching the video, he stopped the video at the point where they were discussing the “feature” of including the option of “weighted races” and we both slammed on the brakes and said “What did he just say?”
My brother was angry, and said “WHO asked for that “feature” and WHAT was their justification for asking for it?”
I put on my “Election Official” hat, and then put my “Leftist” hat on as well, in the former, to try to rationally consider what their real need might have been for asking for this feature and getting it implemented, versus the Latter (Leftist hat) what would be their public facing justification (fig leaf) for putting this functionality in place to cover what their nefarious purposes really were.
Wearing the “Election Official” hat, I was wracking my brain (because I don’t know much about the things they might want to do) but I thought they might want the feature for local election issues, for example...if one precinct or locality has larger mean household populations than another precinct of locality and they have some kind of ballot question issue they are voting on, they might want to change the setting for that locale to give the higher mean a value of 1.5 or 2.0 and the lower one a value of 1.0.
Or (and this was my first impression...oddly) like the 3/5 Compromise, it would be done as a way to give some portion of the population (such as the move to restore felon voting rights) less of a weight in their vote, making their vote a 0.5 value to a non-felon who would have a value of one.
Or making an illegal immigrant a value of 0.5.
I have no rational reason why it would be asked for. But my question, I would like to see asked, is WHO asked for this “feature” to be implemented.
There has been much talk about people on the Left (Not only in the USA, but around the world) who have interests or relationships with Dominion Voting Systems. I think it would be fascinating to see who pushed for this “feature”.
But it sure as hell doesn’t support a “One Person, One Vote” system, and anything other than that is third world or tyrannical.