>Voting machines create digital images of ballots each time one is fed into it. The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors already provided the state Senate with those images as part of subpoenas a judge ruled in late February as "legal and enforceable."
This is dasting. There are three ballot sets to look at:
1) actual paper
2) images provided by voting machines
3) images taken at AZ Audit
One would expect results from all three to match. But what happens if the voting machine image results don't match?
What if they then run the image audit on the AZaudit images as a verification of the image analysis and find the results still match the paper hand audit results?
That would make for a spectacular shit show.
Agreement between the hand audit and AZAudit image analysis validates the image analysis/auditing software. Any differing results found in the voting machine images can't be refuted.
Once the software is validated, albeit for public opinion, it can be used to count other counties/states. AND, maybe it becomes a new part of a election day tabulation.