They can be opened later to be used as evidence.  However, it currently can only be done by court order.  The point the witness was trying to make is that nobody seems to have the balls to call for it to be done.  And actually it is not that nobody has the gumption to call for it to be done, the real problem is the judges refuse to rule for it.  That's usually because they are democrat judges in democrat areas, or they do not want to be called racist.  That's what the witness was saying as well.  Nobody wants to touch this because they always get called racist and it ends up being about race and not about the fraud. I live in Michigan and they actually did open up the ballots for recounting in 2016 down in Detroit.  That was the 71% the witness was referring too.  When they opened up the ballots in Detroit in 2016, everybody discovered that Detroit's elections are completely unusable.  The recount was shut down within a matter of days of starting it because the Democrats (the ones who asked for the recount) quickly realized what a disaster it was and shut the whole thing down before anything worse came to light.