From the allegations, it doesn't sound like it was a matter of being a few thousand off at the end of the campaign; it sounds like at the beginning of the campa

From the allegations, it doesn't sound like it was a matter of being a few thousand off at the end of the campaign; it sounds like at the beginning of the campaign, before it had even gotten any publicity, a bunch of new Kickstarter accounts that had never funded anything else were created, and those accounts then wound up funding most of it. Then when the allegations came out, several of those accounts changed their names, and backed a bunch of other projects (presumably at a $1 donation level). As in, if the allegations are true, this doesn't sound like it's a matter of pushing it over a little at the end, it sounds like they planned this from the beginning and self-funded most of the project just to be able to qualify for the matching funds.