Trump dodged the bullet by turning his head by enough but not too much.
THIS IS HOW THE SCAM WORKS
The ballots are fed into the counting machine which tallies them and spits them out.
Ballots that the machine can't read are tallied for human adjudication and spat out into a different tray.
THIS IS HOW THE SCAM WORKS: The unreadable ballots are fed through the machine repeatedly to create many ballots for human adjudication. The human decides who gets the votes.