Excellent analysis.
In addition to this there are Dominion training videos.
They specifically talk about this weighting system.
They also mention how the software can manufacture ballots, and fill in the little circles from a “library” of randomly formed blobs, so you cannot tell it was printed by the computer.
The stunningly stupid reason they give for doing this is to protect “privacy”. But the only “privacy” it gives is from knowing it was a computer-generated ballot.
[However having a “library” of blobs tells me that there may be a way to compare blobs to see how many match perfectly. Especially if the library is small]
[However having a “library” of blobs tells me that there may be a way to compare blobs to see how many match perfectly. Especially if the library is small]
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Sounds like the *brushes* in a digital graphics program. Probably they can be rotated, re-sized, perhaps stretched/compressed along one axis and otherwise made to appear different. Perhaps they can set up a programmed sequence of such manipulations that would allow a small library to become nearly *infinite* to the observer.
Not only would it become apparent to the naked eye after viewing the batch over time, I think there are programs that can detect such matches, even after manipulation.
I wonder if they are jpegs or other pictures on a different layer?