Powell is apparently the last one to figure out that they didn’t NEED to use the machines to rig the election.
Agreed, there are a lot of fraudulent ballots. There is also proof of incorrect or fraudulent machine software updates, etc...
I have wondered about this as well. But then I realized that what ever method is used, both the ballots and the machines are involved. If a machine is used to kick out some ballots for human interaction (adjudication) then those ballots also need to be put right by humans at some time before they are audited. (This can be much later in time, but would need to be done to correct the divergence between machine count and paper count.
Likewise, if a pallet of ballots were to be introduced with all votes for one candidate, then the machines would need to count them as well (this was likely the scheme in Georgia.).
None of this explains why a machine would need to have an adjustable output that could run different counts with the same set of test ballots This wa apparently observed as well.
My take is this is what happens when different scams are run in various places and they do not do the same thing everywhere. So we should stop looking for sameness and simply accept that people left lots of doors open for cheating, and the big one was sending the other side’s observers out of the room. This is enough for me to call the election null and void. Watch what is done if Georgia the second time?