You can see why such features might be a given and useful under the right circumstances, but the real problem is that there are zero safeguards. The easiest way to go about it even slightly more secure, is for the scanner to individually separate an error ballot and route it to another tray where it can be put in an adjudication pile. But it doesn't even do that.

On top of that, there are no safeguards to even know who adjudicated what. As she demonstrated, you can know that a batch had some issue and was adjudicated, but you don't know which ballot, and if it doesn't know which ballot, then it also clearly doesn't know what the adjudication was. So it won't even tell you that someone changed a ballot to Biden.

That's why they say this system was designed for fraud, because it's soo insecure that it would only be that way because it's designed to allow fraud. While at the same time it doesn't even keep a record beyond marking that a batch was adjudicated somewhere.

And yeah, under NO circumstances should a ballot even be allowed to be adjudicated without spoiling that ballot and forcing them to throw it out or find the person to redo their ballot.

I could see how maybe a bad mark could have an issue being read, but machines are insanely good at reading marks. Even all of your mail gets run through a machine for writing recognition to know how to route it, and even bad chicken scratch writing has no issue going through the mail system sorting machines. But we're talking about a single mark in an oval. The notion that those would need extra adjudication and made easy to adjudicate, has to be 1 in a million ballots that could have an issue somehow.

And even then, it should be a spoiled ballot. That means, tops, in an election, we shouldn't have to adjudicate more than a couple hundred ballots across the whole country combined for a marking error, other than over votes...which can't possibly be adjudicated because there's no possible way for an adjudicator to know the voters intent if 2 candidates in the same box are marked. So we don't even need a system that can adjudicate ballots this easily, because 99% of ballots shouldn't need adjudication at all when it comes to reading marks (minus over voting).

It's like if a top website put an admin panel on their front page that anyone can access, just to make it easy in case the actual admins need to get in and do stuff. Access to such features simply shouldn't be necessary enough to warrant even having it there, and when it is necessary, the ballot should be rejected from the system entirely, permanently, and be considered spoiled, requiring humans to physically sort out what to do with those ballots, with strict records.