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This doesn't hurt anyone but Trump does it? I'm trying to figure out the election fraud angle - it's really just defrauding Trump and his campaign for payment of services not rendered, correct? Not that it's OK if so (I mean, it's funny, but they should still be prosecuted), but how does this fraudulently influence the election (if at all)?
One thing this does is amplify the false narrative that the election will be stolen away from Trump.
These canvassing results make it look like there are more Trump supporters than there really are. It looks like it's going to be a very close race anyway, but if Harris gets a higher number of votes in states like Nevada or Arizona than this canvassing data suggests, then Trump and his supporters will ignore the prospect that their numbers are bad and will instead use these corrupted numbers as evidence that either a) fake voters are in the mix or that b) votes for Trump are being suppressed.
And this will then be extrapolated across all battleground states that don't go their way, not just Arizona and Nevada.
Edit: clarified a couple of sentences.
Great point, thanks for pointing that out.
I think in a lot of cases this is just a big rabbit hole for anyone who wants to fix it or prove it even happened.
Both of those are just expensive, in both time and money terms. I think it’s got to be damage control, and then maybe some attempt to round people up and find the fraud after the election?
But the bottom line is that it’s the PAC that shoulders the entire cost, for now, and the Trump campaign just has to eat the damage for now. These aren’t federal crimes or really even actual crimes, so any eventual outcome is most likely to just be lawsuits or legal threats against supposed fraudsters?