Another thing that Pulitzer has brought up is that the poor imaging is likely related to them not using the proper paper, as the machines are designed to use specific paper with specific reflectivity properties. Use a different paper, and it may or may not work.
Interesting. Having unreadable ballot images would allow them to switch out the paper ballots before they were handed over to the auditors, and not get caught. If that’s what happened, then electronic skullduggery was used initially to miscount the paper ballot totals, then the paper ballots were tampered with later to get the results to match. I don’t know if there’s proof of this, but it would explain a lot, if true.
Also, I saw where the Dominion machines were all programmed to skip the paper validation process to determine if the ballot was printed on legal paper - otherwise all the ballots would have been rejected. It’s a good way to hide the fraudulent ballots. Even legitimate votes would have been cast on bad paper so the paper couldn’t be used to identify the good from the bad.