Something that always bothers me during election time, even in leftist spaces, is the lack of any discussion of direct election tampering. In addition to voter suppression and gerrymandering and such, we know electronic voting machines are seemingly designed for the purpose of tampering, and the dem primaries were blatantly rigged with shitty apps, coin flips, and "rouding errors" that somehow all went for establishment candidates. So, are we really sure any vote totals are legit, or is it a giant psy-op whose results are tailored to produce the preferred political climate for capital?
Moderate amounts of election tampering, and the taboo on discussing it, serves as an extra advantage for incumbents and institutional power brokers. If you're in power you have the influence to juice the results in your favor a bit.
Of course, this only extends to moderate tampering. You can pull off Bush v. Gore, but you can't reverse a landslide or pick a new candidate a week out and give them 120% of the vote. We'll probably see exactly how far you can push it in the next several weeks.