The machines are more easily verifiable than the paper ballots. They just can’t find anyone smart enough to verify for the republican side, not that they trust the opinions of experts even on their own payroll.
It’s like, to all the people on their side, the machines are some scary, unknowable box that nobody understands what goes on inside them… some sort of devil magic or something. How can anyone know how to make sure the machine hasn’t been tampered with?
In actuality, they specifically want paper ballots because the ways to tamper with them are more well known and accessible to them. The machines wouldn’t allow for it.
He knows he broke the law… he doesn’t know he did something wrong…