The electoral college

[BzaDem]

38. In a different, much closer election, the universe of potentially decisive events greatly expands

In an election like 2000, individual decisions of election officials could be decisive. Even unintentional errors could be decisive. (Or in the case of 2000, five Supreme Court justices halting the counting could be decisive.) That's just the nature of an election decided by a few hundred votes out of millions.

I'm just saying that in this election, it wasn't remotely that close. The chances of manipulation that could plausibly flip the results is improbable in the extreme. Not because people would never think of doing such a thing. Instead, it is because it would simply be too difficult to successfully flip results at thousands and thousands of precincts (where members of both parties are counting the votes and watching the process) without getting caught at any of them.