It doesn’t take an entire state cheating to swing close elections. In highly populous areas, it only takes a couple of voting locations when the margins are very tight as they were in 2020. It also doesn’t require cheating in every state in close elections. It is only necessary in a few swing states. So to sum up, cheating in just a few polling stations in just a few swing states is enough to win close elections.
Voter ID and stricter election laws are necessary or at the very least a return to the pre-pandemic rules that had been in place for quite some time. The problem is that states with Democratic legislatures aren’t interested in reverting to the old rules or implementing voter id laws.
The federal government counts electoral votes, but there should be some restrictions/rules for the states from which they accept the votes, otherwise, nothing would prevent a state like NY from choosing, for example, to not allow any Republican votes or a state like MS from not allowing any Democrat votes. It is no different than loan regulations that local banks must follow to prevent failures for which the FDIC would ultimately be responsible. We all know what happens when these restrictions are loosened and the loans are sold off in good faith.