In this race it did not matter...but what if...some “October surprise” made things close...a few hundred...or a few thousand votes up your sleeve could make the difference...
BTW...as a teacher of U.S. Gubbermunt in public school(Tx)..we practiced in the classroom...using our County machines...and at the end I would reveal how I had stuffed the ballot box with extra ballots...not a lot, but just enough...
(we had optical scanner type)
One smart young lady came back with another class later in the day to practice vote...and stuffed the ballot box on me(since I was staying out of the classroom until all the students had entered)..Ha Ha...She became a fine lawyer !
There is hardly such a thing as a “fine lawyer”. All the fine lawyers are dead.