Scheer was a globalist too. He was moving the party towards the left just like O'toole, albeit less slowly than O'toole has ramped up. Perhaps they burned their own asset for a larger strategic play?
The leadership race results took so long because they started hand counting the votes after the machines initially tore up some votes. Thus if the counting process was rigged then Sloan and Lewis team were in on it because they observed the count too. Not saying the candidates were in on it, but you'd have to say the lawyers/observers were controlled. The only way I see them rigging the CPC race is if they changed the votes prior to the counting. It was a mail in ballot vote, so they could've switched out some ballots to sway the results.
It's fair to say they didn't even need to rig the race, the media forced the CPC voters into choosing between their 2 globalist assets Mackay and O'toole. No need to rig the race when 1 of your guys will win it, all they needed to do was starve Lewis and Sloan of media coverage and legitimacy.
Dominion voting machines