That means that AZ has paper ballots. Further, the ballots are human readable. A hand re-count was conducted.
This is all good practice, CO, WA and CA (at least) do the same. But it means that "voting machines" is a misnomer at best. The machines so named are tabulators at best. Any accusations of Chinese, or Venezualan or Ukrainian tampering with "voting machines", or talk of "PCAPs" showing mysterious tampering is almost certainly propaganda in service of Trump's authoritarian takeover.
It's not like the 2000 presidential election. Some states, Florida included, used actual voting machines, where no per-voter-ballot existed, and hand recounts were impossible. It seems to me that since that election was decided by 5 votes, shenanigans could actually have been done.
I’m the last person to believe the Jan 6 conspiracy theory (I’m more inclined to think the accusations of fraud were a pre-emptive strike to discredit anyone challenging the next election). But there is absolutely positively incentive for both domestic and foreign interests to interfere with the machines.
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