Was the election not cooked though?

Due to a new and novel conspiracy? Almost certainly not. The people who care don’t need a new solution, their original solution still works fine.

Cooked through gerry-mandering and voter disenfranchisement practices?

Yes. Absolutely. Once again. As usual. Gerry meandering and voter disenfranchisement is well documented, and has been being done by powerful people against the rest of us, for a very long time.