LindyAF
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TBH I just think the reason why it was more rigged at the presidential level was just incompetence. Inner City elections official tells another one they're gonna need 100 more Biden votes, they get 100 more Biden votes. Didn't mention downballot, so no downballot. IIRC was another thing that was weird about the election, Biden got a lot more votes without any downballot votes in I think it was Michigan than Trump did, by about a factor of 10.
I agree with some other stuff you've said, but I'm pretty sure this isn't right. House districts have different densities but roughly equal populations (within each state). Republicans should be able to manage this sort of stuff too. If they don't, it's not for that reason.
Thus, if your main concern is the presidential race, you don't ballot stuff in districts that are normally close, you stuff them in districts your party OWNS. The Ds in the US have a much easier set up for doing this, as they tend to own districts that are also highly population dense, meaning they can stuff more without raising alarms, meanwhile the deep red districts where Republicans dominate tend to be low density rural districts where if they tried to stuff enough ballots to swing a statewide race it would be much more noticeable (due to the sudden spike in turnout above historical norms or more easily exceeding registered voters in said district).
I agree with some other stuff you've said, but I'm pretty sure this isn't right. House districts have different densities but roughly equal populations (within each state). Republicans should be able to manage this sort of stuff too. If they don't, it's not for that reason.