Even if it's just two dozen counties in key swing states, that's a lot of government employees to persuade to violate the law. That's why he brought up vote fraud in that interview, saying that "there’s a lot of dirty pool played at the election, meaning the election is rigged." Vote results often follow patterns that people watch on election night to try to predict the outcome or after the fact to assess why an election happened the way it did. How those electors vote is tied to the results of the election in a given state. There are ways to shift the vote results in a state, of course.

Source: Washington Post August 03, 2016 18:38 UTC