Because that's what you do with ballots.No they were not. The ballots were checked by other workers and then placed in boxes to scan them. This has been thoroughly debunked.
You "check" them then put them in a big suitcase and hide them under a table for processing when
no one is around.
They were placed in a container and putting them under the table was not hiding them. Bottom line is that the number of votes were consistent with the number of ballots. They were checked by workers with onservers raising no objection.