I've been saying this since the rigging. Ballots are not normal paper from the copier. They're a special type of paper, printed in special ways, in weird sizes, using multiple runs to different portions (e.g. text vs circles vs framing vs optical scanning codes). This makes them very hard to forge and will be bloody obvious if you have anyone familiar with identifying paper forgeries look at a known real ballot and one of the hundreds of thousands (or millions) of suspected firgeries. And this is hardly expert witness or paper manufacturer territory. Pop into any local nerd shop, shanghai whichever employee is in charge of buying MTG cards, and hand them a $10 jeweler's loup. They look for printed forgeries every day and are damn good at it.
I've been saying this since the rigging. Ballots are not normal paper from the copier. They're a special type of paper, printed in special ways, in weird sizes, using multiple runs to different portions (e.g. text vs circles vs framing vs optical scanning codes). This makes them very hard to forge and will be bloody obvious if you have anyone familiar with identifying paper forgeries look at a known real ballot and one of the hundreds of thousands (or millions) of suspected firgeries. And this is hardly expert witness or paper manufacturer territory. Pop into any local nerd shop, shanghai whichever employee is in charge of buying MTG cards, and hand them a $10 jeweler's loup. They look for printed forgeries every day and are damn good at it.
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