This BBV thing is an error in judgement.

"On the most serious tone i ever have in my heart, this could and
will always be questioned, the evidence, has been deleted from hard
disks and the truth will never be known..."

A risk manager would have this on his or her spreadsheet with a
numerated probability of event, and have already taken portfolio
positions to ensure such risks.

The "2004 FOREVER CONTESTED BBV ELECTION" they'll call it.
Even with reciepts, the election can be thrown. To trust such
in the american public having any expediency in modern democracy will be overthrown, and the american experiment declared a travesty.

Immature technologies with a nonzero probability to persue civil war
by forever miscounting, and claiming to have lost critical data.

I feel this concern, like a knot in my throat, but a frosty wind from the ocean slapping you in the face. I feel trust is being misplaced in this technology and it will betray. A full poll of the
entire population, incorporating the non-voting as much as possible,
as fairly as possible, and that nothing but paper ballots or some
serioulsy countable record is kept. Throwing this election would
be a perfect way to permanently undermine software and technology,
so the repulbicans can rot out silicon valley, for more wars at
the cost of any rubicon of accountability.