“Rick Snyder., no fan of Trump or MAGA people, signed the Dominion contract”
These contracts are often based on price.
The Dominion systems I believe produce a machine-produced filled ballot. Other systems produce a blank ballot the voter fills out.
This means the Dominion systems are less vulnerable to ‘hanging chad’ equivalent problems, but would have fewer fingerprints on them and other possible proofs of fraudulent activity.
The Dominion design was reasonable considering perceived design needs long ago.
There are means of labeling ballots (by the hour of printout and by machine serial number for poll location print out ballots)(by 7/8-digit mail-out zip code truncation labeling for mail-in ballots) to make fraud more difficult and to permit many fraudulent ballots to be extracted from the final count.
I lived in Florida when the 2000 Punchcard Hanging Chad debacle was playing out. Many other weird things were going on Election Night, and Florida wasn’t the only State with issues, but the biggest one with the most that Electoral votes that would actually determine the Election’s outcome. I don’t know if any State still uses the punchcard, but whatever is happening or not happening with Voter/Election Integrity, the Powers that Be are apparently just fine with it. My county uses a “fill in the dot” card that’s run through a machine and if there’s any problems, it gets kicked out before you can get your “I voted” sticker. You have to show a valid picture ID, but if you don’t have one with you, you can still vote, but are supposed to produce the ID at the Clerk’s office to have your vote counted. Dead people long with people who have moved to another State are still on the Rolls, but that’s a whole other issue in Voter Roll Purging.
The Dominion “software” is the issue, with the invisible hands behind the scenes. I remember seeing an interview with one of the Software developers who said this is so sophistocated, no one would ever be able to prove that tinkering was happening.
I recall the early vote counting in 2016 in Antrim County, a very small county, where issues were publicized Election night. We were told that it was just a mistake, and that it had been fixed. This is before Dominion, so what was the cause, I don’t know:
https://www.westernjournal.com/michigan-county-flips-trump-major-vote-tabulation-error-discovered/
Similar problems in Muskegon and Barry Counties:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/sheriff-dar-leaf-announces-investigation-michigan-2020-election/