It's a large Democrat run city, which means any cheating that occurs there merely determines which Democrat wins. The Democrats lousy urban policies long ago chased away enough middle class voters to ensure the only people left are the elites and the poor, both of which will reliably vote for them.

The concept is called "weaponized government failure" and I saw it speculated this first got noticed when the crackhead mayor of one of the worst run cities in America, Marion Barry, was re-elected with huge margins, despite the city being in terrible shape. The concept was described as if you do a crappy enough job running your city voters that expect decent roads and schools and law and order will move to the suburbs, leaving just the people that are wealthy enough not to care because they have private schools and private security, or the poor who don't expect any better, and thus you've secured your party's reign because the people inclined to care more about results than party who might vote for a Republican have self-deported.

It's a large Democrat run city, which any cheating that occurs there merely determines which Democrat wins. The Democrats lousy urban policies long ago chased away enough middle class voters to ensure the only people left are the elites and the poor, both of which will reliably vote for them. The concept is called "weaponized government failure", meaning if you do a crappy job running your city voters that expect decent roads and schools and law and order will move to the suburbs, leaving just the people that are wealthy enough not to care because they have private schools and private security, or the poor who don't expect any better.