Don't forget the pallets of pristine unfolded flat as a board ballots that we all saw. Other than when you screw up at the polling place and request a new ballot, when have you ever seen ballots that were not folded? That's how they come in the mail, folded.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin started the fabrication of what slavery was like in the 1850s. Not all masters were Simon Legree, a few were mentally messed up and took it out on their hapless slaves. The Negative images come from here and have only grown with TV and films going back to the days of silent film. The bad news is that too many people saw and were part of the so-called insurrection of Jan 6. It’s a useful fiction, but fiction none the less. They would like to make it a part of the historic memory, like the Holocaust with Museums, and stark B and W photographs. No, the truth will come out. Remember they tried to turn JFK into a plaster saint too—and it worked for a while—until we discovered he had feet of clay and was screwing anything in a skirt.