Gonna say he would rake this and be through quicker thank you can say have a nice day.

Sure the machines are sitting in minimally secured voting places. And usually they are already plugged in and charging. But they cannot be turned on without breaking seals and loading the election by entering passwords. And even if someone went in and ran up one or many votes overnight, when poll workers arrived they would notice the seals were broken and public/protected counts would be off. And in our case, there would be paper ballots in the bins of the tabulator. All red flags that would be immediately investigated. We would see it in the logs and it would be painfully obvious.

In my county we do L&A (logic and accuracy) testing. Both parties are involved everything is signed off and documented. I know this isn't forensic level, but what more would one want? We complete a test deck using ballot markers, test all races in all precincts. Tabulate them and output a print that checks against the test deck produced. All of this is held in archives and reviewable by the public. Machines are zeroed and sealed and will not be touched until election day.