Why are they so opposed to looking at the machines? Why are they so opposed to looking at the issues that people raised. I'd rather hire an independent company to do an impartial audit
I've always had a problem with the hand waiving of any questions surrounding this or any election, they should be constantly under scrutiny.
I used to work as an auditor for Deloitte & Touche and would love to see several of the top firms like D&T do various audits and test samples and issue reports like they do for financial statements and make them all public.
Part of our job beyond the audit was to recommend improvements and changes to existing procedures, separation of duties, etc to ensure more accurate and reliable reporting going forward, they could do this as well but of course politics would come into play and all sides would be jockeying for what benefits their side more than fighting for what's best...I despise our political environment and what does to everyone involved
On the one hand I feel there is room for fraud in every election but on the other hand I have no faith in government, beaurcrats and bureaucracies to be coordinated enough to pull off a fraud of a magnitude sufficient to change the results without something going wrong, whistle blowers coming to light, etc, etc.
I know for a fact there was voter fraud done by people who obtained a paper ballot and voted for another person who was incapable or possibly even unaware. I think I mentioned this before but I know of someone who voted for a lady that is 80+ years old and not in the mental condition to be able to vote and her vote went for Trump (which there's a decent chance she would have voted that way but thats not the point). This is one of many reasons why I have a real problem with paper ballots as parents could be voting for their apathetic kids as another example, we could go on and on.
So, like you, I am really disappointed everyone seems to just hand waive off any concern abut the election, especially over paper ballots and think there needs to be a serious rethinking of how paper ballots take place and to what extent going forward.