One of the many maddening infuriating jaw-slackening fascinating anomalies about the 2020 presidential election is that Basement Joe “81 Million Votes” Biden won a smaller percentage of counties than any winning president ever, and yet he got more population-adjusted votes than even rock-star Barack Obama got in 2008.

How’d he do that?

Indeed, Biden won just 16.7% of counties in 2020, which shattered the previous record low of 22% set by Obama in 2012, which broke the previous record low of 28% also set by Obama in 2008. So, in 2020, Donald Trump won 2,547 counties to Joe Biden’s 507, and he hauled in a whopping 13 million more votes than he did in 2016, and yet he lost the election by seven million or so votes. (If we sound bitter, it’s because we are.)

Clearly, the Democrats had something going on with that bulk-mail ballot fraud strategy and all those unmanned ballot drop boxes in those big, populous, Democrat-controlled cities in those crucial swing states like Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin, which were decided by a total of around 43,000 votes out of some 156 million cast. Clearly, the handlers of the dementia-addled old guy who couldn’t draw flies to a campaign rally and who finished a pathetic fourth in Iowa and fifth in New Hampshire somehow had it all figured out on Election Day. And they intend to keep it that way going forward.

How? By adhering to the old ward boss’s adage: It’s not who votes. It’s who counts the votes. As The Daily Signal’s Fred Lucas reports:

Two big money liberal operations, ready to spend $80 million each, are trying to determine who controls elections and how in the years ahead. “The overall objective of the political left is to change the way you conduct overall elections,” Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project, which advocates clean elections, told The Daily Signal.

One of the two liberal groups, Run for Something, is a political action committee founded by a former Hillary Clinton campaign staffer. In the spring, Run for Something established its Clerk Work project with the goal of electing clerks, election supervisors, registrars, recorders, and other local officials charged with running elections.

Hmm … electing the people who decide elections. Why didn’t we think of that? The goal is to “promote thousands of election administrators in the years ahead,” Lucas says of the leftist PAC. “But for 2022, it reports endorsing 11 candidates competing in races in California, Colorado, Illinois, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, and Tennessee.” California and Illinois are lost causes, but they still have plenty of Republican congressional districts. And all those other states are either purple or red.

Ever wonder why your local school board is such a hot woke mess of leftist idiocy? Right there you have it.

While conservatives are working late hours and shuttling their kids to baseball practice and basketball practice and field hockey practice and swimming practice, leftists are running for election to crucial local positions that we’ve all but abandoned to them. That’s how a political party that stinks at governing — a political party that can’t define what a woman is and insists that men can have babies — can keep insinuating itself into our lives. Because we let it.

What difference can one local schlub make? Plenty. As Lucas continues: “Local election clerks generally are empowered to interpret and enforce state election regulations. They often have discretion on matters such as whether to count absentee ballots that come in after Election Day, how strictly to enforce voter ID or signature-matching requirements, and how closely poll watchers may monitor the ballot counting on Election Day.”

That sounds like a Democrat wish list for electoral fraud. And if you have a strange sense that you’ve seen something like this before, you needn’t look any further than George Soros and his model for electing soft-on-crime district attorneys in big cities across the nation.

“What we shouldn’t lose track of,” says Jason Snead, executive director of the Honest Elections Project, “is they are playing the long game. They are going to look for every possible way to impact elections, and they can make substantial changes in the long run through this kind of program that they wouldn’t have been able to make in 2020.”

After all, if you’re the Democrats, why mess with a crooked good thing? Especially if your political opponents are asleep at the switch.