Status: reading the 300+ page Dominion Voting Democracy Suite user manual.
The software has a LOT of options and warnings for many of them.
Setting it up properly is a huge undertaking and probably not many people know how to do it.
Noticing many of these types of words in the manual: ignored, omitted, invalid
There is a setting to throw out votes for specific individual contests if you vote for a whole party.
"With the Party Preference contest, the voter selects their preferred party, and any contests which do not belong to the same Elector Group are ignored when the ballot is cast."
A bad operator could theoretically setup the ballot to put a specific candidate into a party that is not his official party. If you select his party and vote for the party, the individual candidate wont get a vote.
Scenario:
Republican -Trump
RepubIican -Trump
LOOK CLOSELY
In the second scenario, if you voted for the Republican party, Trump would NOT receive a vote because he was registered to the "repubiican" party.
This might explain why Trump performed poorly in strong-republican districts.
In the second scenario, if the voter just voted straight-ticket, then a Trump vote would be ignored.
Im NOT saying this is what happened, but it is a supported feature of the voting software.
https://twitter.com/CodeMonkeyZ/status/1326416438840729600
https://twitter.com/CodeMonkeyZ/status/1326422145744990208
Dominion Democracy Suite Final Report
https://www.dos.pa.gov/VotingElections/Documents/Voting%20Systems/Dominion%20Democracy%20Suite%205.5-A/Dominion%20Democracy%20Suite%20Final%20Report%20scanned%20with%20signature%20011819.pdf
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