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This is unusual because a candidate can then get more votes than are shown on the TOTAL VOTER counter.

There have been instances in the past where the people who set up the machines (not the poll workers) set the counter for the candidate they are opposing to lose ~100 to 200 votes.

This is accomplished by not resetting all the counters to ZERO. If the counter is four digits, for example, it will reset to ZERO after counting 9999. The attendant sets the counter to 9800 or 9900. Then the first 200 or 100 voters will bring the counter to ZERO and those votes will be lost.

There are also other examples!

Given that they used a relatively small number on numerous machines, they could be rather confident that they wouldn't go over the total number of registrations in a precinct. You can pad votes with machines that way -- but you can only do it a little on each machine. But as close as Pennsylvania is -- an extra thousand or two in Philly could turn the tide.

not really ... because the turnout will end up at about 95% ... and about 15-20% or more the rolls that are dead, moved, or addresses that don't exist.