why do they need the database? the hardware and software is all right there. they have the ballots. they are inventing reasons for you to be upset.
If I understand correctly, when there is a problem with a ballot, the machines can throw an error and ask for a manual adjudication.
It keeps an image of the ballot and how it was adjudicated.
If some poll worker decided to, ahem, "fortify" the election by feeding a slanted batch of ballots through an extra time or two and overriding any errors, there would be a record, and fewer physical ballots than there are supposed to be.
counting ballots for a couple weeks now i think and they decide right now is the right time to throw that accusation out there. yeah, your totally not being manipulated bro.
*just gotta jump to the most extreme conclusion because DEMOCRATS BAD.
After spending a week or so fighting to get passwords, the Audit team has announced that the voting machines' database was wiped a few days before the handoff.