The bits of PillowCon I caught streaming had some examples of this phenomenon. Techies w/ no background in election systems poked around drive images & fussed over log files seemingly deleted during a software update & a batch file that seems to suspend security restrictions.
https://twitter.com/normative/status/1425453351173505031
Can you make those things fit a conspiracy narrative? Sure. Are they actually suspicious or abnormal? Were they interpreting those things correctly? Presumably you’d want to ask someone who knows what “normal” looks like.
Instead the MO seemed to be: “I don’t understand what this is. I can tell a story where it’s explained by something nefarious. Therefore it’s evidence of something nefarious."
I can think of fairly banal potential explanations for both of those things, but of course, I don’t really know either. Without context you’re telling a just-so story that fits your expectations, and apt to confuse your first explanation for the only possible one.
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