Letter from cybersecurity experts about hand counting and 2024 election anomalies

[Bluetus]

230. Absolutely the case.

The kind of fraud alleged (to be possible) in these cases can easily be detected simply by re-tabulating votes at the precinct levels. Are we accusing these Democratic Governors of being so blind or incompetent to not perform such routine audits?

However, the issue is of great concern in areas that use the so-called DRE (Direct Recording Electronic voting without any paper trail.) Those cases are ripe for this kind of fraud. And after all these years installing modern voting systems, it is appalling how many counties nationwide have absolutely no audit trail.

At this point, we must assume that any locales that do not have a paper trail made that choice specifically in order to enable such fraud. This article says that over 90% of voters live in an area with a paper trail.
https://www.governing.com/next/america-moves-decidedly-toward-paper-based-elections

In my state, 52 of the 92 counties have no audit trail whatsoever, and it is probably no coincidence that this has become a solid red state with a supermajority red legislature dominated by representatives from the counties that have no paper trail. That does not prove there is fraud. But why else would a county choose a system that cannot be audited? In my county, we have a DRE with a paper trail. The paper costs practically nothing, and there is one scanner in each voting location. My guess is the scanners had a one-time cost of about $2,000,000 for a population of about a million. These scanners have served > 10 elections so far, so the actual cost is quite low.