I believe that the primary point is that destroying the digital records increases the expense and thus the likelihood of a recount. Why do you think that the digital copies should be destroyed?
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I believe that the primary point is that destroying the digital records increases the expense and thus decreases the likelihood of a recount.
In most cases in a close race the Democrats like being able to count the ballots over and over and over again until they get the results that they want. This happened twice in our governors race in Washington. Votes were literally manufactured after the election. If digital copies of the votes actually cast existed... it would have made it more difficult for this type of fraud to have been perpetrated.
In the special election in Alabama for some odd reason it was decided at the last minute that the authorities wanted to make it more difficult and expensive to do a recount and also eliminate one of the safety mechanisms built into their new voting system. The most likely explanation is that this was not done on a whim.