@Nentuaby @titania I live in a district that actually had someone who appeared to be a plant to siphon votes from the dem in the primary (california open primaries, terrible terrible idea) for county supervisor wince unlike state races, county ones are local and our county has a rule that if one candidate gets 50%+1 vote they don't have to do a top two run off general election. The republican did get the most votes, but was just under the 50% bar so we had the top two in the general after all (and I think the dem won pretty handily). So those far fetched theories aren't always that far fetched...

(the plant thing is because her only listed donors were the same major donor to the republican candidate despite running on a very progressive platform: https://voiceofoc.org/2026/05/ocs-most-competitive-races-for-the-june-primary-election/ it's the first section with the three women candidates)