Once they pass the fold test, you can then test to see if the marks on the mail-in ballots were made by hand or machine. If the ballot is marked by machine, they are flawed.
However, I don't buy into the hidden code from the printer. That's maybe true for your desktop printers and office copiers (and the like), however, I don't think your commercial printing press is going to do that. That would have to be designed into the forms and color separated, and of course require that the Y channel [ink] be present, and that the section of printed page containing that mark isn't trimmed away.
Lot codes were only tracked for paper that was OK for food contact or FSC certified. Your run of the mill stock wasn't tracked that way.
But yea, I would hope paper ballots would require a special blend of paper, kind of like how money is printed, so that there are security measures in the paper itself that make it extremely hard to reproduce, and that the paper itself would have a chain-of-custody so that some cheap Chinese or Mexican knock-off would be easy to identify. But again, this would require physical access to the ballots, which is what these politicians are preventing.
Once they pass the fold test, you can then test to see if the marks on the mail-in ballots were made by hand or machine. If the ballot is marked by machine, they are flawed.
However, I don't buy into the hidden code from the printer. That's maybe true for your desktop printers and office copiers (and the like), however, I don't think your commercial printing press is going to do that. That would have to be designed into the forms and color separated, and of course require that the Y channel [ink] be present, and that the section of printed page containing that mark isn't trimmed away.
Commercial office printers it’s there, but yeah wholesale printers aren’t going to bother with it.
It could be embedded in the paper, not legit paper, not legit vote?
Lot codes were only tracked for paper that was OK for food contact or FSC certified. Your run of the mill stock wasn't tracked that way.
But yea, I would hope paper ballots would require a special blend of paper, kind of like how money is printed, so that there are security measures in the paper itself that make it extremely hard to reproduce, and that the paper itself would have a chain-of-custody so that some cheap Chinese or Mexican knock-off would be easy to identify. But again, this would require physical access to the ballots, which is what these politicians are preventing.