Because the triangle is solid black and the stamp text is also black, SO if you scan the image with a camera it cant differentiate between the black triangle ink and the stamp black text ink, your own eye could barely even notice the black stamp text on a solid black triangle. the ballot image seems to have some sort of replication algorithm that only traces and recreates the outlines of what it detects which is why the original ballot is a solid black triangle and the ballot image is a clear triangle, this also explains the weird warping around all of the stamp text, every ballot image has a different warping due to the random placement of the stamp.
e.g the recreated image isn't going to print the outline of the stamp within the solid black triangle because there IS NO OUTLINE to trace leaving the whole area blank making it "appear" as though the stamp text goes underneath when it actually went over the triangle. you can actually see the outline algorithm at work in the top left ballot image picture where it adds a spike to the triangle because it thinks the "A" in "Approved" is part of the triangle. <-------- sauces- Ballot Image: https://files.catbox.moe/7ezvfe.png Actual Ballot: https://media.kjzz.org/s3fs-public/green-ballot-envelope-signature-20201013.jpg
Focusing on and spreading photoshopgate(yeah im gonna call it that pogg) takes away from the point of why the images were presented in the first place, which is the fact that they put the verified stamp on ballots that don't even have a signature on them xD but hey at least now everyone has seen the stamp on ballots which no signature without noticing it, maybe that is why shiva mentioned photoshopgate, so that everyone on both sides spreads and debates the photoshopgate without realizing they are spreading indisputable evidence that they have verified ballots WITH NO SIGNATURE ;)
This is exactly the same technique they used with the draft summary that they "leaked", Jovan Pulitzer basically admitted that the draft leak was done by the audit team to bait the media in this interview around 32:00 ;) https://rumble.com/vmxq93-jovan-pulitzer-reaction-to-maricopa-county-audit-september-24-2021.html
absolute classic
EDIT: Great debate in comments going into further detail.
And image scanners do not decide to capture or not capture any part of an image. They replicate what they see. If those triangles were black, they'd be reproduced in black.
That is true. But look at the red triangle. It hollowed out that triangle too. I think OP is making a valid observation. I think the wonky looking image is more likely a computerized graphics type of artifact caused by the original ballot being in color, and the image ballot being reproduced in black&white. The software had to figure out how to print a color ballot in black&white, and the imperfect, suspect looking black&white image is what it produced. The anomaly is probably the result of some kind of cost saving, or eco-friendly ink saving bullshit.
I agree. Can't believe they showed an inaccurate reproduction as "evidence" when the image itself deletes part of the information. So odd they did that.
https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/azfamily.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/f/30/f30dcc3b-ccc9-58e5-95f1-c4a071769a71/5f9b74a8d392c.image.jpg?resize=1120%2C630