Everything else aside, it astonishes me how... CHEAPLY this was done. Whether I am honest, or simply risk averse, or privileged, or scared... you'd have to add

Everything else aside, it astonishes me how... CHEAPLY this was done. Whether I am honest, or simply risk averse, or privileged, or scared... you'd have to add at least a couple of zeroes for me to even contemplate or understand or fathom somebody doing this. How fearless or stupid are these people? Or alternatively, how easy and safe is it to do this, for it to be worth such minor sum of money (compared to power/damage wrought)? >>"After receiving payments ranging from between $300 to $5,000 per election "