“The above steps allow for a particular candidate’s votes to be altered while preserving down ballot totals.”
This is a good explanation for why PDJT did so badly, i.e., lost, in some precincts/states while the down-ballot candidates kicked ass.
I think this anomaly is one of the reasons Richard Baris and other elections experts uses to confirm blatant cheating.
When I was running elections every spoiled ballot that had to be facsimiled was reviewed by a pair of people. The pair had to have one each from both major candidates’ sides. It was supposed to keep everyone honest.
It worked. The Canvassing and Facsimile Boards were professional and got the job done. But that was the ‘80s; things have changed. I can envision screaming and hair pulling now.
Soros started his ‘Secretary of State’ project in the USA early to mid 2000s.
Venezuela was taken over in 2002 using Diebold machines which Soros owned, but later sold while retaining control over the software (Smartmatic).
Hugo Chavez “served” 2002-2012 as Venezuela’s “President”. He was “elected” = selected by the Soros Diebold machines. As dictator-in-chief, Chavez drove Oil-Rich Venezuela into the ground.
Chavez’s daughter lives in Switzerland on billions in $$$ her “socialist” father left her.