The electronic votes said he lost in a statistically impossible landslide, but the paper ballots said he won

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If they were miscalibrated in that fashion, then the machines could not have correctly recorded the vote on the paper receipt.

  1. The user inputs something on the touch screen.
  2. The machine’s software tallies the inputs in memory.
  3. The machine’s software records the inputs onto the paper receipt.
    If #3 is correct, then #1 is probably not the problem. (“probably” because it’s possible, although highly unlikely, that #3 could also be in error such that it also changed the inputs so that they ended up correct.)
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