This is a bit of a wall of text, so bear with me.

The data we all have about the election comes from Edison: https://static01.nyt.com/elections-assets/2020/data/api/2020-11-03/race-page/pennsylvania/president.json but that data is very difficult to parse.

For one, votes are presented in a weird format. We are only given the total votes, and then Trump and Biden are given a three significant digits representation of their share (I assume this was done in order to drive news graphics?). But, moreover, the data is frustratingly vague. Candidates will lose votes by the hundreds of thousands.

So my big question is: What is the explanation for this opaque presentation of the data? Have we ever gotten one? Can someone point me to it?

I mention it because if I were going to cheat, this Edison data is exactly how I'd do it: Give Trump 100k imaginary votes by hiding them in the numbers, Give Biden 300k extra votes, take away 100k from Trump, take 200k away from Biden. If anyone complains, well, what's the big deal, Biden "lost" more votes than Trump.

I also mention it because throwing out a state is a very high bar to clear, even with a friendly Supreme Court. You'd need some very serious proof of wrongdoing, and even so. On the other hand, if you can prove that the big ballot dump (and just that big ballot dump) was fraudulent, you can slice that out (you don't even need to go find the ballots or anything), you just subtract it from the totals.

Check out: https://results.philadelphiavotes.com/ResultsSW.aspx?type=FED&map=CTY there's no precinct anywhere in PA that is 99:1 Biden to Trump. Anywhere you get a vote dump that's 99% Biden, if it is legitimate, it must be some combination of parts of votes from different precincts. (I say "if it is legitimate" because it is possible that this is some garden variety governmental incompetence where they separated the votes out and then added them back in. This, I'd assume is also illegal).

So, this rests on how the Edison data is to be read. Do dumps represent finished precincts/vote-types? For example, Division 09-07 in-person votes get tallied and sent up to central command along with some other divisions? Or, do they represent all of a precinct? Or, do they just represent some arbitrary subsection of a precinct? In the case of the massive Biden dump, somehow, an amalgamation of subsections of many precincts which do not at all resemble like the actual precincts they came from.