Without a great explanation, there doesn't appear to be a reason to have early votes with pens and election day votes by markers. Now, maybe there's a good explanation, but it's hard to see.
Do the vote counting machines have a sensitivity setting? If so, how is it altered? And are there application logs for changes?
Here's just one way (out of many) a fraud could occur in this election. They could set the sensitivity setting to normal before election day, so the early voting is all normal and legit.
On election day, when heavy Trump voting is expected, you dial the sensitivity setting down just a bit so that some percentage of votes by marker or votes that don't completely fill in the circle are missed (is it 1%?, 5%, or more?). Even a calibration test in the morning of the election wouldn't necessarily catch this if you have a stack of test ballots that are well filled in.
Perhaps after the in person vote, you swap the setting back to sensitive so you capture the mail in (fraud) ballots perfectly, and anybody checking the machine sensitivity wouldn't see that it was set to low sensitivity during the in-person vote.
Purely speculation, but the only thing I can think of is speed of voting. I voted on 10.29 with a Bic Pen and it took a long time. A sharpie would be much quicker. Perhaps they were worried about long lines on election day.
Perhaps. But if this was the concern, was it documented anywhere before the election? Is there a pre-November 3 email trail that says "Hey we're worried about Covid with crowds standing together on election day. Let's speed up the process by using markers on election day as that's just a bit faster and the machines work 100% perfectly with them."
And this merits an explanation for why the switch. If you want to use markers on election day because it's faster, ok fine, but why not use markers all of the time? Don't you want pre-election day voting to go fast too? Why the sudden switch?
Without a great explanation, there doesn't appear to be a reason to have early votes with pens and election day votes by markers. Now, maybe there's a good explanation, but it's hard to see.
Do the vote counting machines have a sensitivity setting? If so, how is it altered? And are there application logs for changes?
Here's just one way (out of many) a fraud could occur in this election. They could set the sensitivity setting to normal before election day, so the early voting is all normal and legit.
On election day, when heavy Trump voting is expected, you dial the sensitivity setting down just a bit so that some percentage of votes by marker or votes that don't completely fill in the circle are missed (is it 1%?, 5%, or more?). Even a calibration test in the morning of the election wouldn't necessarily catch this if you have a stack of test ballots that are well filled in.
Perhaps after the in person vote, you swap the setting back to sensitive so you capture the mail in (fraud) ballots perfectly, and anybody checking the machine sensitivity wouldn't see that it was set to low sensitivity during the in-person vote.
Purely speculation, but the only thing I can think of is speed of voting. I voted on 10.29 with a Bic Pen and it took a long time. A sharpie would be much quicker. Perhaps they were worried about long lines on election day.
Perhaps. But if this was the concern, was it documented anywhere before the election? Is there a pre-November 3 email trail that says "Hey we're worried about Covid with crowds standing together on election day. Let's speed up the process by using markers on election day as that's just a bit faster and the machines work 100% perfectly with them."
And this merits an explanation for why the switch. If you want to use markers on election day because it's faster, ok fine, but why not use markers all of the time? Don't you want pre-election day voting to go fast too? Why the sudden switch?