“If never run through the machine, nothing to count or audit! That mostly the reason to trash ballots, nothing to see or find.”
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That’s why any forensic investigation audit needs to go COMPLETELY from beginning (contracts for printing and actual printing of EVERY ballot), through each and every step/location for EVERY ballot. EVERY PHYSICAL ballot needs to be tracked through all its physical movements. And for every one of those physical ballots, EVERY ITERATION OF A DIGITAL VERSION (including all related METADATA for that version) needs to be tracked and forensically examined.
Remember, all physical ballots (including “spoiled” ballots) are legally required to be retained.
So much craziness surrounding authenticity, chain of custody, counting machine algorithms etc. etc.
I kind of wish they would just demand a preliminary counting of all the physical paper ballots that actually exist. I would bet money there aren’t nearly enough actual ballots to match the numbers they claim to have counted. In other words, i think they just made up hundreds of thousands of votes with a few “accidental” keystrokes, with nothing to back them up, If that’s the case, it’s game over right there.