On the fake ballot boxes: Could someone scan a ballot in an envelope and determine how it is marked?

[Retrograde]

6. Not here

My CA ballot (only 6 big pages long, not a record!) is printed on heavy stock and is folded so the boilerplate and not the votes are on the outside. Only one envelope. I suppose you could scan them and use some sophisticated image processing software* to figure out how someone voted but it would be easier to open the envelope and look. But that would leave evidence that it had been tampered with. The GOP operatives seem to have forgotten that ballots can be tracked by the voters and that California will generally let people cast a provisional ballot if they swear that they delivered their ballot in time and it never got processed.

*there's some cool software that was able to decipher rolled, carbonized scrolls from Pompeii, but that's expensive and not easy to use.