In MI, an absentee voter who brings in their absentee ballot on election day to cast it in person at a polling location must "surrender" their completed absentee ballot and complete a new ballot provided by the poll worker.

However, if they were to take that same absentee ballot to an early voting center before election day, they would be allowed to insert the completed ballot directly into the tabulator without having to "surrender" it to a poll worker and complete a new ballot. - Patrick Colbeck

• QUESTIONS:

1) There seems to be an undisclosed difference between the configuration of the ballots issued to absentee voters and those issued at the polls on election day. Why else would a new ballot be issued to a voter attempting to cast their absentee ballot at the polls on election day?
2) There seems to be an undisclosed reason for defining unique ballot processing requirements for early voting from that of voting on election day. Why would the timing of when someone votes drive the manner in which they vote?
CONCLUSION:
By differentiating ballot configurations and tabulation processes as specified above, the election system appears to be designed to enable anyone with advance, privileged access to voting systems (e.g. MI SoS Jocelyn Benson, NGO's such as Dominion) to rig the election