It's like how the Saudi activists who called for women to be allowed to drive remained in prison after it was legalised; it's not about the policy itself, it's about defying the ruler.
It comes down to the tragedy of the commons. It's unlikely to make a difference if one person does or doesn't vote, but with a lot of people it can. Which state it is just changes how many people it takes.
Because she barely lost in a few crucial states. It would have taken fewer than 80,000 nonvoters voting for her in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania to flip the election.
If you want to put a cool cursed item in your game, just drop it when the players are still too low level to have remove curse…or make it subtle enough that they don’t initially realize it’s cursed.
Or make the item powerful enough that the players are tempted to use it anyway.
Poe's law in full effect here.