And let's not forget about the dual ability to not just read, but also print on ballots, effectively allowing you to completely change the paper trail.
Yes, even just visually inspecting it without forensics would be very easy to spot it's printed, but that's besides the point of them claiming it being completely secure. And while finding the printed ballot would suggest fraud, that doesn't necessarily mean we can prove anything, or that they won't try to put kind of plausible deniability in place like, "ohh, it was just correcting for a ballot that was ink stained", or "the scanner malfuntioned and accidently destroyed the original(s)" But of course hard to deny when it ends up showing mass printed ballots out of the machines.
And let's not forget about the dual ability to not just read, but also print on ballots, effectively allowing you to completely change the paper trail.
Forensic analysis could easily differentiate a printed ballot vs one inked in
Yes, even just visually inspecting it without forensics would be very easy to spot it's printed, but that's besides the point of them claiming it being completely secure. And while finding the printed ballot would suggest fraud, that doesn't necessarily mean we can prove anything, or that they won't try to put kind of plausible deniability in place like, "ohh, it was just correcting for a ballot that was ink stained", or "the scanner malfuntioned and accidently destroyed the original(s)" But of course hard to deny when it ends up showing mass printed ballots out of the machines.