I dont know how you precinct works, but machines go down all the time. It happened to me in 2018. If you signed in and they gave you a ballot, they must count THAT ballot. They can't just make a bunch of ballots disappear or swap it out with another ballot. All have to be accounted for.
You can't buy my dignity. As much as we all seem to like Joe, "He got paid a lot of money" isn't an excuse. That's what we call a sellout. And oh, by the way, he didn't move to Texas because he is based now. He did it for the taxes only.
The definitive proof that he was inappropriate with natalie and the Joe helped hide it just came out today. And they already voted early. I think Rudy was 2 weeks behind on this shit.
Also, Fox and gateway pundit are basically just russian propaganda to them.
Its probably because of a chain of custody issue. Or at keast that is the excuse. Feds won't charge you unless they have a slam dunk case with rock solid evidence that won't thrown out. Also... powerful people might kill you.
They shouldn't just take your ballot. It should go into a secure box to be counted later.