No..some Bidiot didn't check the settings on the photo copier before copying a ballot for the D.S.....or A patriot deliberately set the copier to zoom 103% so that the DS fake ballots would raise a red flag...how is that for spitballing?
Ballot pdfs were set for 20" paper. Day-of paper was 19" so printers had to compress the image which often leads to lighter print-outs. Hence, the misreads. (Undoubtedly, no coincidence.)
From the article:
". . ., The sample ballot pdfs published by Maricopa County and the Runbeck-printed ballots used for mail-in voting were correctly made to 20” length in the 2022 General. So there have been no problems processing Democrat-leaning, mail-in ballots.
However, the ballot-on-demand printers used for in-person voting only have 19″ trays that contain 19” ballot paper.
This means, that for in-person voting, the official ballot image had to be compressed to fit on smaller paper than it was built for.
Compression causes the ink to be a little lighter than it should be and thus affects how the tabulators read the ballot.
Maricopa County directed some voting centers to increase how dark the printing was, and this helped the problem somewhat., . . ."
Now we are supposed to believe NON-STANDARD Ballots are a problem?
There are multiple ballots sizes for the same state, and they vary by political affiliation?
No..some Bidiot didn't check the settings on the photo copier before copying a ballot for the D.S.....or A patriot deliberately set the copier to zoom 103% so that the DS fake ballots would raise a red flag...how is that for spitballing?
TLDR:
Ballot pdfs were set for 20" paper. Day-of paper was 19" so printers had to compress the image which often leads to lighter print-outs. Hence, the misreads. (Undoubtedly, no coincidence.)
From the article:
". . ., The sample ballot pdfs published by Maricopa County and the Runbeck-printed ballots used for mail-in voting were correctly made to 20” length in the 2022 General. So there have been no problems processing Democrat-leaning, mail-in ballots.
However, the ballot-on-demand printers used for in-person voting only have 19″ trays that contain 19” ballot paper.
This means, that for in-person voting, the official ballot image had to be compressed to fit on smaller paper than it was built for.
Compression causes the ink to be a little lighter than it should be and thus affects how the tabulators read the ballot.
Maricopa County directed some voting centers to increase how dark the printing was, and this helped the problem somewhat., . . ."
I imagine that compressing on only one axis causes distortion too.