Can someone please explain? How does real-time access to voting machines change anything at scale?
Yes, they use electronic networks to inflate voter roles in advance. But to change tallies? Doesn't make sense.
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They use conventional fraud in congunction with electronic fraud to produce more "natural" looking outcomes.
There are many ways they do this but the big ones are
fractional voting: where candidate "1" votes are weighted at 1.1 votes and candidate "2" votes are weighted at 0.9. for every ten votes "1" gets an extra vote and "2" get one less for a net change of two votes difference. This allows "1" to have a pretty good lead on "2" with even input data.
ballot review: where there is an intentional mistake made on the ballot (wrong size or position, or use of sharpie, etc). The ballot is then set aside for a poll worker to help "correctly" identify the choices the voter made. When implemented correctly this method is highly effective as it allows a vast bulk of ballots to be electronically stuffed into either race as needed to produce a proper statistical looking result curve.
Those are the two big aspects I'm familiar with but there are others as well.