I always figured that the Russians (in cooperation with NSA) blocked the part where the votes were supposed to be shifted to the data center in Germany, altered, and shipped back to the machines. That would explain the claim of "Russian Interference!". They would have interfered, but only in blocking the cheating and at the behest of the White Hats. It would also have had the advantage for the deepstate that any info that leaked out of what really happened could be twisted into "proof" that the Russians interfered.