Stack the election with willing candidates to split the opposition vote, and then have your own people count the ballots (dishonestly, of course), and call in specialist lawyers if you fall short of fraudulent ballots, so you can stuff more in the ballot boxes; the Democrats know how to win elections.
Yep. Here in NH the Dems tried to get a Independent on the US Senate race ballot but failed. You know the Indie plant would have been staking positions to the hard right (even though funded by hard left), which accomplishes two things: Peels off some right-leaning votes. But makes the GOP candidate tack more to the right than needed in a general and lose women, moderates and soft Dems who otherwise would be unhappy with the Obama Democrat puppet.