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You regard it as a "hack job"? By the way, sorry I haven't followed your posts religiously, so I may have missed those.

I find your characterization of it as a "hack job" to be curious. Perhaps we aren't referring to the same report. I am referring to :

Allied Security Operations Group - Antrim Michigan Forensics Report

You sounded to me like you have some IT experience, as do I, which is why I asked you, I thought it might be interesting to hear your commentary on the IT end of things.

For example, that people were not using individual accounts, but were all using administrator accounts with superuser access? Or that the SQL database had no password protection? Or that none of the hard drives on any devices were encrypted. Or that Antivirus definitions had not been updated in four and a half years? Or that Windows updates were more than two years behind? Or that there was no chain of custody of the supposedly secure USB drives? Or that the log files were deleted? And that from examining log files that were probably accidentally left in place, that they were able to determine that the scanning devices/ballot devices in that county were failing to scan ballots at an average of 68%, and as high as 80% in at least one precinct, which has them being assigned to an adjudication queue?

That last one in particular is disturbing. One might expect a few percent at most scan failure average with a single machine here or there failing due to an equipment hardware issue of some kind.

Do you really regard pointing out things like that in this context as a "hack job"?

I have been working in IT for going on thirty years, and when I see that kind of setup from an IT perspective,, it is so bad and frankly, embarrassing that it cannot be incompetence. Don't you think those astonishing things are worth observing?

I am perplexed as to why you would characterize it that way. Perhaps I misjudged your area of expertise, I wouldn't have expected that response from an IT perspective.