Batches of 25k Ballots for LA Mayor With Zero Votes for Spencer Pratt?

Uh...

Look.

If you took 25k ballots from 25k people, none of whom supported Smith, you still wouldn't get zero votes for Smith. You'd get at least some votes for him just from people making mistakes filling out their ballots.

Though, counterpoint: if you were going to steal an election, you probably wouldn't be stupid enough to fake tranches of 25k ballots with zero votes for your opponent...

I mean, we know that CA elections are dirty...there's really no doubt about that anymore. 

So this is hardly some gigantic surprise.

What's surprising is that it's this blatant.