That makes sense. Polling for 16 was very bad. Anyone who is interested in politics should look up how polling actually works and how they fucked up the 16 election. If they're intentionally rigging for a close election, they are probably using those numbers that come out, and they were bogus that time.

Incidentally, numbers from the 20 election will be used to skew raw data for 24. So cheating back then will actually impact how polls look for 24. At least the official ones. Insiders may have access to raw data in order to apply their own formulae if they're looking for how much to cheat.