I think that Q has different primary meaning in mind for each spelling: PAIN, Pain, pain, P_A_I_N
All of them involve pain but there is a different primary meaning. When he said it with the
the pain
He meant Th. Paine whose real name is Mike Moore and the book that he was writing that revealed FBI corruption.
But not there is P_A_I_N which I think means a longer word that brings pain.
Cheap guess is PENETRATION bit it could easily mean that we should read the PROCLAMATION by POTUS more closely. Why is that called a proclamation any way? Does it have some legal meaning different from an EO?
I also suggest that PARTICIPATION could be important. What happens when you compare the participation counts in the election, maybe the number of ballots handed out, or the people through the door at a polling station, with the total number of votes cast? Is there a discrepancy? Because that brings the auditors swooping down on the place where the criminals are hard at work.
Even here, there may be more than one meaning for P_A_I_N