Nobody informed Americans they were voting with weighted points like that
They weren't. The fact the voting machine has that as an available setting doesn't mean it was used. It's like having a a computer that can boot both linux and windows. The fact it can run linux doesn't mean it was.
More importantly, the weighted systems we are talking about only make sense in a proportional voting system, in this case apparently using a proportional shift of all votes rather than a full shift of a proportion of votes, and it only has meaning in a proportional system. Or, to extend my analogy, you can use this to cheat in exactly the same way you can run a linux executable in native windows. Which is to say, in no way at all. This only works as a conspiracy cheating theory for people very ignorant of the different types of voting systems. People like Chad, who thinks that the sole purpose of RCV is fraud, despite being told 4 times in a row that Australia uses it in its elections.
For emphasis, the proportional vote shift only kicks in after the candidate in question has won election, and is used to select the next seat. As I said, it's meaningless in an election with only one seat, such as a presidential election.
Counting single transferable votes - Wikipedia
Another method, known as
Senatorial rules (after its use for most seats in
Irish Senate elections), or the
Gregory method (after its inventor in 1880, J. B. Gregory of
Melbourne) eliminates all randomness. Instead of transferring a
fraction of votes at
full value, transfer
all votes at a
fractional value.
Such a system requires a winning quota setting, amongst other things. It is utterly meaningless in a presidential race.