I'm highly sympathetic to claims that voting machines might have rigged an election (deliberately or through error) up until a hand recount matches the machine

I'm highly sympathetic to claims that voting machines might have rigged an election (deliberately or through error) up until a hand recount matches the machine total. In this case, I believe the claim is that the reported numbers don't even match what the machines printed out. There's a lot of room for distinguishing these, even through the fog of uncertainty in any developing story.