"I can no longer...satisfy the Citizens of Atlanta and the world that those ballots are secure."

[AverageOldGuy]

4. Yes, it is

I served 12 years (2012 - 2024) on the Electoral Board in a rural VA county.

All voting machines I am familiar with have an internal hard drive that saves election results for the past some number of elections -- our machines kept last seven elections. Retrieving the data requires a court order plus software that is available only to the manufacturer.

I'm certain your concern is that Trump's people could get access to voting machines and fix them to somehow screw around with the next election. To do that, they must have access to the machines as well as the ability to mess with the machine's internal processes for handling and tallying ballots -- and I'm certain some of Musk's tech bros could do that, provided they have unfettered access to the machines.