Electronic versions?
1.  I wrote 'actual ballots' deliberately. To be clear, i meant the originals. Do you trust an organisation that can't even do simple math, not to lose (or gain) some electronic versions of the ballots?
2. There's a reason a (normal/honest/non-cpc) vote master keeps the real hard-copy ballots. Trustworthiness.
3. The vote master stated something along the lines 'the results would be the same even if we recount'. Hah! I hope not. I'd expect a bit of math to be used on total votes against total ballots in a recount. They can't even make up decent excuses.