For simplicity I call “the anomaly in the matrix” the Muskovy Virus in election computer tabulation and tallying systems.

They use it just when they have to, to keep control. Not every race, that would be too obvious. Every con man knows, you have to keep the suckers thinking they might win. It is also a good trick to distract the suckers with other ploys, so they miss the main rigging Marc Elias