But where are the fake ones printed? If what both of you say is true, then ANY ballot with a printer ID mark on it would be fake, yes?
Have you ever voted?
Have you ever noticed that there is a serial number printed on your ballot?
Have you ever noticed that when you are handed a ballot at a polling place, a poll worker carefully records that number?
Ballots are like money, and they are tracked. Poll worker have to account for every ballot, whether it was cast, or if it was unused.
Voter fraud requires the use of valid ballots cast by someone other than a registered voter.
You just don’t run off a bunch of ballots on a Xerox machine and stick them in the tabulation counter.
Not exactly. Yes & no. My quick research suggests that all ballots are, indeed, imprinted with hidden data which only the certified vendors are able to reproduce on the ballots.
I have no idea when exactly this occurred, but I’m sure it was in the switch from presses to printers (presses could only embed barcode or alphanumeric identifiers).
Fake ballots will be totally out of sequence and/or have gibberish embedded on the ballot. If they used COS printers the ballots actually are encoded with the serial number, which is trackable via the manufacturer & retailer.
I believe that the “watermark” comment widely distributed in so-called “debunked” reports is a misnomer referencing the hidden identifier likely included on each & every modern paper ballot in the U.S.
It’s too late now, but as an industry expert I’m keen to closely scrutinize the next ballot I have in my hands...