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That's not how it works. Votes are typically collected and tabulated in a county, but that state's electors are generally allocated by a majority popular vote,
by rlucas 8y ago
That's not how it works. Votes are typically collected and tabulated in a county, but that state's electors are generally allocated by a majority popular vote, aggregating all counties (a few states do proportional). "Winning" a county doesn't matter; winning the state does. You could get the extra votes to win a state from a big county without flipping it.
- burkaman 8y agoI know, but as I've said in other comments, hacking a big county is much harder. There are hundreds of polling places and machines, thousands of officials, news organizations conducting exit polls and watching live results, and probably good polls conducted just before the election. It's much more appealing to pick a few smaller counties with limited to no polling and easily exploitable systems, so you can remain undetected. If you concentrate your efforts in a few highly populated and highly watched counties, it'll be obvious.