Maybe, but there’s a lot of crying “cheating” as the “go-to” explanation for election results, which may or may not be true in a given case. Bass was always going to finish first or second. If they cheated to achieve this result, they wasted their money because the “cheating” didn’t get them anywhere near the 50%+1 needed to win outright
They’ll just add a few more photocopiers in time for the runoff.