When I voted in Georgia, the voting machine asked me to verify my selections, then it asked me to print my ballot, then it asked me to check my paper ballot against my selections. I checked mine, what I selected was printed on the ballot. Georgia bought a paper ballot BMD which produced a "text summary" of the selections. This has been criticized because some voters do not verify their selections. Maybe that is true, but that would be on the voter and the process was simple and acknowledged by pressing the screen to end the voting process.
So there is a paper ballot printed with a QR code (a barcode) which encodes the selections of the voter, and also on the same piece of paper the text summary of the voter selections is shown.
Next is casting the ballot, which for me was done by the poll worker by placing the ballot into the scanner where it went through, was tabulated, and went into the "ballot box". I then got my sticker.
The machines read the QR code to determine voter selections and then tabulates and reports the counts for each item on the ballot. For President, the top text summary is who the voter selected for President. That isn't read by the scanner, just the QR code.
As part of implementing the new system in Georgia, it was required (I think by the Judge who also required that the old system without paper audit trail i.e. paper ballots be replaced with one that did have a paper audit trail) that at least one statewide race would be "checked" with what is called a "risk limiting audit" or "RLA". There are certain requirements for such like a statistical sampling formula to determine if the machine counting and tabulation portion of the new system was reporting accurately.
To meet the requirement, Raffensperger ordered the race to be the Presidential race, and ordered that instead of a statistical sample be counted that ALL 100% of the ballots be counted BY HAND. Since the RLA was to check the machine counters and tabulators, they would not be in any way used in the audit.
So all 152 counties in Georgia were required to take all paper ballots and count them by hand by discerning from the text summary (not the QR code) who was voted on for President. After counting all the ballots in this separate fashion, and for the exact reason that the Judge forced Georgia to buy a system with a paper trail, the paper ballots hand recounted did not determine a different outcome for the Presidential race.
Maybe there were a bunch of fraudulent ballots? Could be, but that would not be electronic fraud. BTW, I don't think running ballots 2 or 3 times really inflates the count. That would have easily been caught by the system, and since each paper ballot has a QR code, I would suspect the system is only going to tabulate any ballot just once. I certainly could construct such a system, and since the total number of electronically counted votes matched the number of paper ballots (for the most part, certainly with explainable reason), then we can conclude that the system ultimately prevents counting the same vote twice. In fact, the audit actually found uncounted ballots and un-tabulated results, thus the machine count was less than the hand counted ballots by 5,262. All of the above I write regarding the systems in Georgia. I can't say what went on in other states as I have not researched them like I have for Georgia, which is where I live.
You clearly still haven’t watched the Georgia hearing on these matters. Suspicious ballots were everywhere, especially in Fulton county.
One of the State Employees testified she was replaced by Dominion employees, who had a fraction of her experience, but these Dominion employees actually ran the election against state law.
Another said that “test ballots” were printed off by the tens of thousands, that she personally knew of, but were never invalidated and were instead kept in boxes near the supposedly official ballots.
She said when she took a couple of those “test” ballots, and inserted them into your vaunted Dominion machine, *BINGO* it counted the test ballot as an official election ballot!
So don’t sit here an try to tell us that hand counts of what have been set aside as the supposedly true ballots, are actually true ballots!
You have no way of knowing. The only thing you seem to know, is that defending Dominion is your sworn mission.