And the reasonable inference to be drawn is that they didn’t want the problems with sharpies coming to light BEFORE 11/3, which is why it would be ballpen prior to that date. On 11/3, problems with sharpies could be attributed to fog of war - “just leave your ballot with us and we’ll scan it when we’ve fixed the technical glitch.” What really happened to those ballots?
For skeptics of “markergate”: if there wasn’t something at least being planned -irrespective of whether it “worked” - what is [pic] about?