Because it means that someone besides the election officials who are legally in charge of the voting machines did have password access to those machines. And they still do!

Therefore the person(s) who did/does have the password is not a legally authorized election official- it could be Hillary Clinton, or the head of ANTIFA, or a CCP operative for all anyone knows. Clown world level corruption.

{edit} It also means that election officials could be blocked from discovering any alterations made to those machines.

Because it means that someone besides the election officials who are legally in charge of the voting machines did have password access to those machines. And they still do!

Therefore the person(s) who did/does have the password is not a legally authorized election official- it could be Hillary Clinton, or the head of ANTIFA, or a CCP operative for all anyone knows. Clown world level corruption.