If the machine reads the ballot on the top of a stack and spits out that ballot in the same direction it will reverse the ballot order (i.e. ballot #1 becomes ballot #100 in next stack). So you don't need to "flip it over". The act of feeding it into the machine will cause this effect.
This is why scanners will often scan the last page of a paper stack first to prevent them from being reordered. But the voting machines might not have been designed in such a way.
Agree. I doubt the people doing this took the time to actually flip anything over. They likely just kept running whatever ballots they could get their hands on through the machine over and over as fast as they could. It's more in reference to the fact the ballots appear to flip their location in the batches, as if they batch was flipped over before running them again.
If the machine reads the ballot on the top of a stack and spits out that ballot in the same direction it will reverse the ballot order (i.e. ballot #1 becomes ballot #100 in next stack). So you don't need to "flip it over". The act of feeding it into the machine will cause this effect.
This is why scanners will often scan the last page of a paper stack first to prevent them from being reordered. But the voting machines might not have been designed in such a way.
Agree. I doubt the people doing this took the time to actually flip anything over. They likely just kept running whatever ballots they could get their hands on through the machine over and over as fast as they could. It's more in reference to the fact the ballots appear to flip their location in the batches, as if they batch was flipped over before running them again.