Democrats were counting on routine election fraud to steal the 2016 win for Hillary as the fraud had done in so many prior elections, but Trump's massive numbers totally caught them by surprise. They did not make the same mistake in 2020 but their voting fraud numbers had to break all previous voting numbers as massive late-night ballots lacking the required verification paperwork were rushed into key democrat precincts by the hundreds of thousands, forcing vote counters to extend the counting period into days and weeks following the election instead of the normal one day only counting period.